2.3 Misc Settings

This sections allows to configure some options which affects X-Arc's behaviour. Available gadgets are:

• DropIcon action: indicates which operation should be performed whenever an archive is dropped onto the appicon of iconified program. X-Arc can simply open the dropped archive, open it and extract its contents to the default extraction directory (see functions/extract) or add the dropped file to the current archive. In this case, if there's no opened archive, X-Arc will try to open the dropped file as an archive.

• Output to: tells X-Arc where to write the output produced by all operations it performs. If you want no output all you have to do is enter NIL: here. Otherwise you can enter CON: to have the output displayed in a console window, or some file name.

• Default archive directory: indicates to the program which directory should be open by default whenever you select Open for the first time or click on the corresponding button in the main window.

• Documentation directory: informs X-Arc about the directory containing its documentation files. By entering the correct path here, you will be able to access the on-line documentation by pressing the HELP key or by selecting Documentation from the Project menu. If you press the HELP key, X-Arc will display the section about the object that is currently under the mouse pointer.

• Read documentation using: indicates X-Arc how to display the documentation files. You can choose between using file types or opening a window containing a MUI object HTMLText, provided that you have installed it. This class has not been included with X-Arc because it is not necessary for normal program operations. Its only purpose is to show documentation files.

• Ask before deleting: specifies if X-Arc should open a warning requester when the user tries to delete some files from archive. This is to prevent undesired deletions.

• Un-Iconify: this checkmark tells X-Arc to uniconify itself whenever a file is dropped onto its iconified-state icon. If this checkmark is ticked, X-Arc opens its GUI and then performs the operations indicated by the 'DropIcon action' gadget on top.

• Always ask for destination: will launch a window to allow you to choose the extraction destination when you want to extract an archive.

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