FreeStyleConfig
FreeStyleConfig is a tool used to configure the Mail-It GUI, called FreeStyle.
This utility contains a lot of features, including:
- Widget auto-positioning (no need to calculate the coordinates manually)
- Background handling for all contents (with 9 differents levels)
- Multiple fonts support
- New sets of widgets (like popup with folders listview, powerful color selector)
How to use FreeStyleConfig?
FreeStyleConfig has 4 areas to change parameters:
- Pens: This panel let you change 6 text pens and 8 system colors.
Just double-click on the color you want to change and select the color in the color selector.
- Backgrounds: This panel let you change 9 different backgrounds by choosing a plain color
or a bitmap (the format is handled by the TranslatonKit).
- Fonts: This panel let you change the 6 different fonts of the interface. Just click on the font
icon and select the font in the Fonts selector.
- Options: This panel let you choose the language used by the interface (only english is supported right now),
the bubble help parameters and the look: 2 different looks are available (BeOS and FreeStyle), by checking "BeOS conform",
all widgets will work like the BeOS Interface Kit widgets. The popup menu is used the select the look of the icons (you need to quit
the application to use a new look)
When you have finished changing the options, just click on Apply if you want to try the change, or OK to apply the changes and
quit FreeStyleConfig. If Mail-It is running, the changes will be sent to it without restarting the application.