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The BreakTime Option screen allow you to
configure the program's parameters. It is reached by right-clicking on the
BreakTime tray icon, or right-clicking on the BreakTime
display.
When you bring up the options screen, it will look something like this:
The Option screen has a preview window, several tabs, and buttons. The buttons allow you to accept, cancel or apply the changes and to bring up these help screens.
There are four tabs on the options screen:
Background - Lets you configure
the background.
Display - Set the message text, the position of the message, and
the time display.
Misc. - Controls the timing parameters and sound
settings.
About - Contains program information and internet
links.
Background Tab
There are
several options for BreakTime's
background:
Colors
You can set a single
color, or use gradiated colors:
Graphics
You can use a graphics file:
BreakTime can read a variety of graphics formats including (BMP, JPG and
WMF). You can set the display style of the graphics. This is important if your
graphic is smaller than your display. The options
are:
Display Tab
Contents
BreakTime has several internal messages. To use these don't change the
contents of the Message edit box. If you have changed it and want to return it
to the internal messages, leave the Message edit box blank.
The Set Font button allows you to set the font type, size, and color.
Position
You can change the height of the display (you may need to
for large fonts), as well as control whether the BreakTime
window displays on the top or the bottom of the screen.
Timing
Here is where you set up how often the BreakTime window is
displayed, and for how long it stays.
Sound
You can configure a Windows WAV file to be played when the
BreakTime
window is displayed. You can also preview you sound here.
Run on Startup
BreakTime is normally configured to run when your computer starts
up. If you ever need to change that, you may do so
here.
