Snap Mail allows you to design your own notification icons. In addition, each icon can have a form and default recipients associated with it, both of which will be selected in the OutBox when the icon is chosen.
To create, modify or delete notification icons, select “Icons...” from the Snap menu in the menu bar. This brings up the Icons & Forms window.
To change an icon, select it and alter the “Fat Bits” representation by clicking on the pixels you want to change. Pixels that are off when clicked upon will be turned on and vice versa. You can also click on a pixel, hold the mouse button down, and move the mouse to turn many pixels on or off at once. As you change the “Fat Bits” picture, the icon in the icon list will be updated simultaneously.
For each icon, you can type text into the “Form” box. This text will appear in the OutBox when that icon is chosen. A forms allows you to set up an input template for frequently sent messages. (For example, the phone icon contains a form with all of the entries of a phone message.) Each word that is directly followed by a colon defines a “field” in the form, which can be quickly navigated. Once an icon has been selected, the fields in the form can be traversed by pressing the tab key. As another example of using forms, you could type in “signature” text which you want to include each time you send your mail. This text block could contain some information about yourself, your extension number, or an extremely witty message. The default form for a new icon is one field labeled “Subject:.”
To set the default recipients associated with an icon, select them directly from the user list or choose a group from the “Groups” pop-up menu. No default recipients need be specified but this feature is very useful if you want to design a special icon for sending mail to a particular person or if you design an icon to be used for a set of people to whom you send again and again.
The following buttons are available in the Customize Icons window:
• New
To add a new icon to the icon list, click on the “New” button. The icon will initially be blank and the form associated with it will be “Subject:” No user names will be associated with the new icon.
• Delete
To remove an icon from the icon list, select it and then click on the “Delete” button. The default settings associated with that icon will also be deleted.
• Duplicate
To duplicate an existing icon, select the desired icon and click on the “Duplicate” button. A copy of the selected icon will be added to your icon list along with its form.
• Cancel
To ignore any changes you have made in the Customize Icons window and return to the Snap Mail main window, click on the “Cancel” button. All changes you may have made while the Configure Icons window was open will be cancelled.
• OK
To save the changes you have made and return to the Snap Mail main window, click on the “OK” button.
