General Control Appearance and Behavior
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General Control Appearance and Behavior
The Preferences:Interface menu (shown in Figure 1) mostly contains controls that affect how the interface behaves during use. It does also have a few items that affect appearance not related to coloration, most of which relate to pulldown menus. (A pulldown menu is what you get when you click on a menu’s name in the list above the canvas.) For example, Buttons Size is an appearance modifier, but has nothing whatsoever to do with colors. It’s therefore found in this menu instead of the Icolors menu.
Where a setting’s name is not self-explanatory, the popup help text does a great job of describing the functions of these buttons and sliders. I’ll therefore only comment on a couple of the settings here:
Buttons Size: This affects more than just buttons. It actually affects the relative width of all interface elements. If you have a very high display resolution, you may wish to increase this slider in order to make the interface elements a little larger. But if you operate with a really low display resolution (such as the minimum of 1024x768) you can set this slider smaller to create additional room for the canvas.
Document Fade: Sets the fade time in seconds of changes made in the menus. At a value of 0, any changes take place without fading. A value of 1 means that any change will take one full second to become fully visible in the menu. A good example of this is action is clicking on a submenu name to open that submenu. With a setting of 0 you will watch the submenu scroll open. With a setting of 1, the submenu fades into view more slowly than the scroll effect takes place, making it appear as though the submenu is fading into existence. Of course, any partial setting of this slider will let you see both the scroll and fade effects interacting with each other for a more complex effect.
