The Configuration Manager

Introduction

The configuration panel is divided in 3 pages : General / Background / Cards.
Only 1 page can be active at any one time. To navigate through the pages, click on the appropriate tab.
While navigating you'll probably make changes in the options ; when done you'll have to confirm or not your choices by clicking the OK button or the Cancel button (closing the window is equivalent to cancel). Click the Help button to display this help page.

The General Page

- No confirmation when ending game This option determines if you'll be prompted to confirm ending a game or not (either ending it directly, closing the game, or by asking to start another game). When checked, games are ended without any confirmation.
- Sounds This option switches on / off the sounds played by the game.
- Animation Frames This is the number of frames (sprites) displayed when moving a card or a group of cards to simulate a rather continuous movement. Setting it at 1 means than the cards will move directly to their new location with no intermediate move displayed. The more frames the better the feel or a smooth movement. Warning ! Lots of frames require a lot of CPU...
- Wise Man "Thinking" Delay This is the time (in seconds) the wise man will have to do his job each time you launch it. Remember that while the wise man is running you can't do anything else but wait...
- Internet Browser The full path of your preferred internet browser. Use the Browse button to search for it on your hard disk.

The Background Page

- Background Color This is where you define the color(s) you want to display as a background of the playing area. Click on the colored buttons (Color 1 & Color 2) to change them. The 3 radio buttons (No Gradient / Horizontal Gradient / Vertical Gradient) determines the way the colors will be displayed. When the No Gradient option is selected, the background will be filled with only the Color 1. Warning ! Color gradients require a lot of CPU...
- Background Image This is where you define the image you want to draw as a background of the playing area. Click the Browse button to search for the image you want to load. Click the Reset button if don't want any image to be drawn. The 2 radio buttons (Centered Image / Mozaic Image) determines the way the image will be displayed. Warning ! Background images (especially when rendered in mozaic) require a lot of CPU...

The Cards Page

- Back Image This is where you define the image you want to display as a background of the cards. On the left part is displayed the image that is currently selected. On the right part is the list of available images. To change the selected image, double click on any available image.
- Front Image This is where you define the card set you want to use for card's images. On the left part is displayed the card set that is currently selected. On the right part is the list of available card sets. To change the selected card set, double click on any available card set.
- Scaling This is where you define the scale (size) of the cards. Although they are named by standard screen resolutions, you can use 1024x768 scale on a 800x600 screen for example ; the game will try to do its best to display the cards but it is generally not really fine (as you may expect). On games with large amount of cards, it is sometime a good idea to select a scale one step below your screen resolution.

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