Main Settings

To access the main settings dialog window select "Tools / Options" main menu item.
Main Settings - General:

- Find Item - hot key that brings up window with list of all items.
- Activate / deactivate - hot key to activate or deactivate program.
- Start / stop macro recording - hot key to start macro recording.
- Show / hide - hot key to show or hide main window.
- Play sound when executing macro - if checked, defined sound (.wav file) is played when macro is started.
- Send macro keystroke fast - if checked, the keystrokes (when playing back the macro) are send to destination window without any delays. This option can be programatically changed within each macro using <faston> and <fastoff> commands.
- Save settings on exit - if checked, all the changes made in settings, window position, etc. is saved on the programs exit.
- Show tips - if checked, tips are showing during working with the program.
- Always start minimized to tray - if checked, the program always starts minimized to the Taskbar tray icon. Otherwise the program starts in the same position as it was before exiting.
- Start automatically on Windows Startup - if checked the programs automatically loads on Windows startup.
- Log macro execution - if enabled, the start & stop macro execution time is added to the log.txt file. The file is available from the "Tools / View Log File" main menu item.
- Allow shared items - if checked, multiple users on network can share items saved in the file specified in "shared file path" field.
- Shared file path - the to the file with shared items.

Main Settings - Perfect Keyboard:

- Expand shortcut after pressing - check the keys you want to use to start text shortcut expansion. (The keys that needs to be hit after a text shortcut is typed.)
- Do not delete expand key - if checked the expand key is not deleted.
- Word-breaking characters - the characters listed here cause that the recognition of the text shortcut is breaken when such character is typed. Some keys causes this automatically (for example, page up, page down, tab, arrow keys, enter, etc.) but additional characters can be specified here.
  For example, we have "sct" text shortcut. When typing "(sct " the "sct" shortcut is correctly expanded only if the "(" character is listed in "word-breaking characters" field.

Main Settings - ClickyMouse:

- Automatically activate ... - if checked, the ClickyMouse will automatically activate window with the mouse cursor (so that it is not necessary to click on it to activate it).
- Auto scrolling - if checked, special auto scrolling feature is enabled. To scroll larger documents using this feature follow this:
  1. Within the document, press right (middle) mouse button and hold it down.
  2. Move the mouse cursor up/down within the document while still holding the mouse button down. The document should scroll.
  3. Release the mouse button when you want to stop the scrolling.
  This feature will make scrolling documents easier even if you do not have a wheel mouse.
- Show mouse cursor position - if checked, small window displaying the actual mouse cursor position is shown. The window displayes the mouse coordintae either in absolute screen coordinates or in coordinates relative to the currently active window.

Main Settings - ToolbarPro:

- Auto hide - if enabled, the toolbar is hidden if the mouse cursor is out of the toolbar area. If the toolbar is not docked it is hidden to the toolbar edge that is closest to a screen edge. It means that it can be hidden to any of the top, right, bottom or left edge depending on the toolbar position on the screen.
- Always on top - if enabled, the toolbar is top most window that is never overlapped by other windows.
- Disabled - if checked, the toolbar is hidden from the screen.
- Dock - if checked, the toolbar is "docked" on a selected screen's edge.
- Icon sizes - allows to select between small and large icons both for toolbar and submenus.
- Show tab text - if checked, the tab name is displayed within each tab.
- Show tab icon - if checked, the tab icon is displayed within each tab.
- Disable tabs - if checked, tabs are hidden and the toolbar is smaller.
- Tabs position - tabs can be positioned on top, left, right or bottom site of the toolbar. Note that on old Win95 systems it is possible that only "top" position will work properly.
- Auto-open/auto-close submenu - if checked, it is not necessary to click on submenu button in order to open submenu. Also, if the mouse cursor is not over the submenu then it is closed automatically without necessity to click on desktop or other application.

Related topics: Main Help File