

Customising Word Hound
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Word Hound's Window Colours

Word Hound allows you to change the colours used in three of it's windows
(the 'Selection', 'Display' and 'Quick Definition' windows). Each of these
windows use five main colours :

   Name             Used for                                Default

1) Background    Window Background Colour                   Dark Grey (5)

2) Foreground    Main text in Display and                   White     (0)
                 Quick Definition windows

3) Dictionary    Name of data file entry                    Cyan      (f)
                 is located within

4) Word          Highlighting the word used                 Yellow    (9)
                 in search

5) Select        Highlighting selected word                 Green     (a)
                 in Display or Quick Defn.


Other than the 'Startup' file (see section 1), there are two ways you can
change the colours used in the windows.

1) When Word Hound is running you can change any of the above colours using
   the menu. Simply call up the main menu and then located the 'Colours'
   sub-menu. This menu then has five sub-menus (one for each of the above)
   which contain the usual colour selection menus.

   When you change a colour by this method, the effect of that change is not
   immediate. The colour change will occur when you next bring up one of the
   windows.

2) Before you run Word Hound you can set up the WordHound$Options variable
   to hold the colours you want for the windows. This variable must contain
   (just) five single hex digits, one for each of the five listed (above)
   colour types.

   So to set this variable with the default settings, you would type :

        *Set WordHound$Options 50f9a

   This variable has been superseded by the 'Word Hound Startup file', which
   will take precedence over this variable.

   Word Hound only reads the WordHound$Options variable when it starts up, and
   if it does not contain 5 (and only 5) single hex digits it will ignore the
   variable and set the default colours.


Word Hound's System Variables
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Word Hound used 3 system variables :

WordHound$Dir     - Points to the application directory, tells Word Hound
                    where to find it's sprites files, templates, etc.

WordHound$Path    - Points to the directory (directories) which contain
                    index and data files. By default this is the same as
                    WordHound$Dir.

WordHound$Options - See (above) section on Window Colours. Kept only for 
                    compatibility, you should use the 'Word Hound Startup file'.

WordHound$Init    - Points to your 'Word Hound startup file'. This allows 
                    users to have their own preference files. By default this 
                    variable points to a file called 'Setup' inside the 
                    application directory.


Word Hound's Startup Banner
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If you find you can't live with the startup banner, you can stop it
appearing by simply renaming the file called 'Banner' which is inside the
application directory.


Word Hound <-> Impression hotkeys
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The hotkeys used by Word Hound for hotlinking to Impression can be changed
easily at any time. This might become necessary if Impression (at some later
date starts to use the keys chosen for some function).

To change the hotkeys used simply add (or alter) lines in your 'Word Hound
Startup File'. Values to use should be looked up in the relevant manuals
(eg. Prog. Ref. Manual), or you can use the textual form.



