Topic       : Documentation for Thing
Author      : Arno Welzel/Thomas Binder/TransAction
Version     : thing.hyp 1.27E (23/8/1998)
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View Ref-FileExtra - Configuration... (Desktop)                                    Thing

This page determines the behaviour of the desktop background and the 
dialog boxes:

3D-effect: Globally toggles the 3D style dialog buttons on/off. 
  Buttons are updated immediately -- including any open dialogs.

Snap icons to grid: When active, desktop icons are positioned on a 
  16x16 pixel grid.

Double-click simulated by right mouse click: When active (crossed) 
  a single right mouse click on an object is handled as a left mouse 
  double-click.

  After activating this option the context menus can only be called up 
  with  Control  + left-click! However this does not apply to the context 
  menus for directory windows and the desktop, which can continue to be 
  called up with the right mouse button (but of course do not have to be, 
  if one prefers uniform operation).

Desktop colour: Set the desktop background colour via the popup.

Desktop pattern: Set the desktop background pattern via the popup.

Background image: If one has copied an image module named THINGIMG.OVL
  into Thing's start directory, one can click on 'File >' to bring up the 
  file selector where one can select an image to be installed as the 
  desktop background; this may be either centred or tiled to fill the 
  screen. The bundled module by Thomas Künneth can load any desired (X)IMG 
  files whose colour-depth is the same or smaller than the current screen 
  resolution. Several options are available:

  Use image: The background image is displayed on the desktop if this
    option is active (crossed).
  Centre image: A single copy of the image is displayed centred on 
    screen if this option is active (crossed). If it's not, the desktop 
    background is 'tiled' (filled with copies) with the selected image; 
    this uses the same amount of memory, but if the tiles are too small 
    then the drawing of the background can take some time (in such cases 
    one should partly tile the image manually with a suitable painting 
    program and re-save it).
  Transparent: With this option active (crossed) Thing lets the image 
    'show through' the background pattern. With coloured images this is 
    likely to give rise to some colour errors.
  Use image palette: The module will use the image palette, if present, 
    to display the image if this option is active.

 
  The image module may be changed for others, so loaders for GIF or JPEG 
  images are also possible. If anyone wishes to program suitable modules 
  for this, please get in touch with me (Thomas Binder!). A basic premise 
  is that the completed module will be distributed as freeware.