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Settings

In Options/settings menu, you can set your preferred browser and default KW/h cost. This value must be written as pure number (with no currency symbol) and is used in devices cost statistic.

Starting with this version a flag has been added to allow you to save main window position and size on exit.

In version 1.2 a combo box has been added to choose your date format. You can also create a new one but the string has to follow standard date format. Valid letters are:

G	Era designator	Virtually any combination of these letters and keyboard signs can be used to create new data format some samples for date 15 Jan 2011: the string dd/MM/yy gives as result 15/01/11 and the string dd)MM\yyyy gives as result 15)01\2011 (really no one use this format) while d-MMM, yy gives as result 15-Jan, 11 Warning: the last form with a single d gives back and accept in input only one digit for dates under day 10 (eg. 3-Jan, 11 for day 3). Also all signs are required in input as you specify so you can't input 15-Jan 11 (without comma) or 15/Jan, 11 (with slash instead of minus sign).
y	Year
M	Month in year
w	Week in year
W	Week in month
D	Day in year
d	Day in month
F	Day of week in month
E	Day in week

About Date Bugs: Nyagua try to retrieve from the current (your) locale three standard formats for date (short date/med date/ long date) In US format they should be (for example): M/d/yy 8/22/12, MMM d,yyyy Aug 22,2012, MMMM d,yyyy August 22,2012
These formats are retrieved automatically from java code as SHORT/MEDIUM and LONG date. A dd/M/YY format has been added as a most used standard to be sure there is at least a valid format.

This way to retrieve date formats is showed in official Java code samples but with some locale an error occur as follow:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal pattern character 'j'
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.compile(SimpleDateFormat.java:845)
[...]

This is a JAVA VM translation bug. Eg. the JVM for sk returns some j and n chars that are invalid for date format.

Measure Units settings

Allow to choose your preferred measure units.

This preference is automatically used in the utilities.

If the tick is active in “Use in program" then the units will also be displayed on forms in the program.

The option "Use in reports" enable the display of units in the reports.

Note: up to version 3.1 these options that affect only the form and the reports related to the aquarium as the other masks are already using specific units.

It It's important to know that changing the units does NOT automatically adjust the values. That's because they are stored as simple numbers. So to avoid misinterpretation it is good practice not to change the units after saving the values.

Reports settings

Some reports / statistics are implemented in some forms the buttons to start reports and/or statistics are over the toolbar (eg statistic button: ). Stay over the buttons to get tootips help or feel free to try it :-). Some reports as Expenses Report, FishBase Report and PlantsBase Report need a browser to be showed. The default browser is Firefox but if you need to change it You can do in Options/settings window.

Other settings related to reports are:

Use utf-8 format: select utf-8 format for reports. This format offers a better compatibility to languages different than english and allow use of various charsets.

Use gnuplot: select gnuplot instead of internal engine to render plotting.

Logo: allows you to choose a picture to use as logo in the top of your reports.

Title color: allows you to chose a color to use as standard for report titles.

Footer: insert here your custom footer in HTML (you can also add links and so on).

Style sheet: Choose a file to use as custom Style sheet.

Chart size: To set the width and height of the graphs in reports

Create all the reports together with the aquarium report: With this option set the generation of aquarium report automatically starts the generation of the other reports.

Include expenses reports in global generation: If the previous option is enabled with this option also includes the generation of the expenses report.

Report Theme settings

Since v. 1.2 four sample themes for reports has been added. You can choose them in Report Themes settings:

Here the four samples are showed:

Standard

Shadow

Green

Elegant

All themes are saved in style.css file and a empty user_style.css is added to report directory to allow You to create your own style.

Schedule settings

There are options for the calendar / scheduler.

Enabled: Enable ordisable the calendar / scheduler.

Ask for default form: reactivates the request that appears at program start up in case of upcoming events due on current date. If you, at sometime, has chosen not to see the start up request, here, you, can reactivate it.

Aquarium / Scheduler: Under this option, in case of upcoming events due on the current date, the program can start displaying your calendar form or the standard aquarium form.

Fishbase settings

Since version 5.0.0 you can search for fish on www.fishbase.org directly from within a dedicated window. From there you can import the data of the fish found and its image.

These options are related to the new feature:

Select a mirror: Allows you to choose the www.fishbase.org mirror closest to you geographically.

Connection timed out (sec): The time in seconds after which, in case of no response, you will have a connection error. Sometimes the www.fishbase.org site can be overloaded and give error. With this option you can increase the timeout value and try again.

Presets

New:

From this tab you can enable or disable the presets for expenses and maintenance types (categories).

In the main program window there are two tabs to enter the expenses and the maintenance tasks respectively.
You can add to this classifier any item you want in order to have only those types that have meaning for you. To make this operation easier for new users it was decided to insert a series of predefined typologies that simplify the initial insertions. If these categories do not interest you, ou can disable them here by removing the corresponding check mark.

The predefined categories are:
For expenses:
Equipment, food, maintenance, spare parts, chemistry, fish, invertebrates, plants

For maintenance:
Water change, Maintenance, Addition of specimen, Removal of specimen, Fertilization

Custom labels

New:

From this tab you can edit some of the labels and units of readings that appear in Readings tab of main window.
This feature was introduced to allow users from various countries to adjust the measurement units and/or labels on the fly if the standard translation is not completely adequate. The feature is also useful to replace an unused reading field with another one not yet included in the program.

This feature is enabled only for those readings fields that are not involved, in other parts of the program, in calculations or analysys.

In the order, the fields concern:
Density.
Conductivity.
KH (to change the unit of measurement of the KH go to the Units tab in the options).
Temperature (to change the temperature measurement unit go to the Units tab in the options).
Salinity.