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Brass 100% Configuration Interface
One of the most powerful features of Brass is the 100% Configuration
interface. Imagine if you could change how your applications look
simply by dragging and dropping the user interface elements where
you want them.
No need to imagine - Brass can do it!
Plugins that have multiple elements to the user interface (eg:
Woot Daily, Weatherman) can
allow you to completely redesign their appearance simply by clicking,
dragging and dropping. You can change the position, font, size,
colour and much more of each display element!
The specific elements you can change will depend on the plugin
you're using, but the 100% Configuration system works the same for
all plugins.
Enabling Design Mode
To enable it simply right click the Brass tray icon, select the
sub-menu of the plugin you want to configure and select "Enable
Design Mode".
That's it!
Now when you move your mouse over the GUI elements in the plugin
display panel you'll see a grey rectangle appear behind them:
Wherever you see this grey rectangle, press and hold the left mouse
button then move the mouse to drag the GUI element to a new position.
Context Menu
Right clicking on some GUI elements (text elements especially)
will pop up a context menu with display options:
The options are self-explanatory, select "Set Font" to
pick a new font for the selected element or "Set Color"
to pick a new colour.
You'll notice that sometimes elements are grouped together for
visual purposes. So whilst you can drag each element to a new position,
when you change the font or colour of one element all the other
elements in the group also change. This is just a little helper
to keep the display panel appearance in line.
Resizing Images
Sometimes you'll be able to resize image elements within a display
panel. You'll see a resize handle in the bottom right of the images
if you can resize them:
Simply click on the resize handle and drag it to resize the image.
Saving your configuration
You don't need to do anything to save your custom layout. Simply
go back to the Brass tray menu and select "Disable design mode"
from the plugin's sub-menu. Your layout will be automatically saved
and used every time the plugin is loaded.
Expert Users
Plugins can save the custom layout in any location, but it's usually
stored in <Brass Install Folder>\Plugins\<Plugin Name>\<Username>_layout.nfo.
You can edit this file in any text editor (not while the plugin
is running though or your changes will be overwritten!). The contents
of the file are commented so they should be easy to follow. Manually
editing the file is a quick way to make some specific changes if
you don't want to do it visually.
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