HyperPad User Guide General settings in HyperPad

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General settings

1. Preferences

1.1. General window

In this window you can set some general things, like replaceing Tab with space or set the Command history size. By choosing Replace Tab with space option you can define the lenght of a Tab, which will equal the given number of spaces, if this option is unchosen, the Tab is given a default value (that of a general Tab character). At the Command history you can set the number of latest preserved commands.

1.2. Navigation window

In this window you can set your default internet browser used by HyperPad when you click a link. Choosing the Use proxy option you can set different proxys, but this is not implemented in the present version.

1.3. Editing window

Here you can set the Bachground Color and the Highlight. You can change the Background Color both of the Interactive Mode and of the Source Editor. In the Highlight option first you have to pick the item you want to change and after that you can set its font's family, size, style and also its color. The result can be checked in the Preview box.

2. View menu

2.1. HTML Mode

If this option is checked, the returned result is showed as a rendered HTML page, else if is unchecked the result will showed as HTML source code with HTML tags and attributes.

2.2. Highlight

If this option is checked, the highlighting will working for both of the Interactive Mode and of the Source Editor. If it is unchecked nothing will be highlighted. Uncheck the highlight, when you have a moderate computer and the displaying for the typed text is to slow.

2.3. Navigation Bar

Here you can turn on/off the navigation bar, by checking or unchecking the Active option, and you have three options of how to show the Navigation Bar buttons: text only, icons only or both text and icons, from which you can select one.

2.4. Look & Feel

Here you can select the look and feel for HyperPad. This menu is depends from installed look and feels for Java. By default you have three options here:

• Metal - Java Look & Feel.
• CDE/Motif - Motif Look & Feel, can be used on any platform.
• Windows - Windows Look & Feel, you can use this look and feel only on Win32 systems.

But thanks to L2F Productions with SkinLF now you can put skins to HyperPad. Just go to the javootoo.com and simply download the skin you want.

Install new theme in 4 easy steps:

1. Go to the download site, choose a theme and download it.
2. Create a new directory in hyperpad/lib/skins/ directory. But be careful! The skin in Look & Feel menu will be named as this directory.
3. Unpack the downloaded zip archive and copy into the previously created directory.
4. Restart HyperPad to re-read the skins and apply your changes. If everything is in order, after HyperPad restarts the new skin must be in the Look & Feel menu.