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Options Menu

Select Fonts ...

The Select Fonts menu allows you to choose the font size an type to use in the display of data panels and navigation buttons.

Select Colors associated with Files-- Meaning and Usage

All these colors may be modified in the Options menu.  This help document show only the default values.

ColorKey

Be sure to read about data panels in the Matching Windows help documentation. The Select Colors associated with Files Option menu allows the user to customize the colors associated with data panels. The most important colors are LeftColor and Right Color.   These colors are associated with data that comes from the base file and change source file, respectively.  In all views data panels showing a data component, and individual navigation buttons are shown with a source color.  In the views, the data from the base file is shown in the left most columns, and data from the change source file is shown in the right most columns, hence the name of these color labels.

The merge output file is initialized from the base file, and all it's data panels initially are colored to show that.

When new people or data is merged into the merge output file, from the change source file, the data panels for the merge output file retain the color associated with the change source file in order to show the source.

Occasionally something goes wrong, and a display item cannot be categorized correctly.  In that case it is given the Other color, which really means there is a bug somewhere. 

Container Colors  There are two types of data panels that have no real data of their own, and these are called Containers and Titles. These panels "contain" other data panels and serve as markers to delimit more complex GEDCOM data structures.

If you then use the right-click editor to modify the contents of something in the merge output file (center column of 3-pane merge window) that particular data will be colored the Edited color: EditedColor.

In order to align data so that it can be seen as moving left or right,Empty Color empty values are inserted where one side has data and the other does not.


Reset all Options and Exit

This resets all color settings, and font settings back to their defaults. Also JPriseMerge will be placed back in tutorial mode and files setting will be reset to the tutorial data files. JPriseMerge will also be placed back in beginner mode so that help files are automatically displayed upon activation of JPriseMerge windows.

JPriseMerge will immediately exit and next time it is restarted, it will be as if you had just installed it.

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