Help for Tune Smithy

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Recently visited Files & File Types - Options

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Recently visited Files File Types - Options

Options such as number of entries, && whether to go always to the same folder

Maximum history entries to show at one time

Maximum number of recent files entries for floating menus...

This is for the recent files lists you get when you click on the button to the right of the drop lists of fractal tunes, scales etc in the main window - or right click on the Open and Save As buttons or on drop lists of files.

Show Recent Files...

Your recently opened files and folders of the types recognised by Tune Smithy

Automatically go to most recent file and folder for type

Go to most recent file (or to preferred folder with Ctrl + Shift)...

With this option selected, normally the Open window will take you to the most recent file

Hold down Ctrl + Shift when you click on File | Open or open the file in any other way, to go to the preferred folder instead.

Or similarly, hold down Ctrl + Shift when you change the file type selection in the File types window

Go to a preferred folder each time

Go to preferred folder (or to most recent file with Ctrl + Shift)...

With this option selected, normally the Open window will take you to the preferred folder.

Hold down Ctrl + Shift when you click on File | Open or open the file in any other way, to go to the most recent file instead.

Or similarly, hold down Ctrl + Shift when you change the file type selection in the File types window

File Associations

Associate Tune Smithy with file types recognised by the program...

This lets you open the files in Tune Smithy by double clicking on the file in your Files Explorer

Project Options

Configure what happens when you open or save a project

Help = F1

Click for help for this window. Or F1. Other opts: Shift , Alt, Ctrl + click...

F1 or click shows the help for the current window in your web browser.

Some windows may have no help yet in which case the help icon is shown crossed out with a red line.

Shift + F1 or Shift + Click brings up the tool tips extra help window (this window) to show any extra help for a tool tip.

You can tell if a tool tip has extra help if it ends ... like this one.

Ctrl + F1 or Ctrl + click takes you to the list of keyboard shortcuts for Tune Smithy.

Alt + F1 or Alt + click (alternatively Caps lock physically held down + F1 or Click) takes you to the on-line page at the robertinventor.com web site about the current main window task - which gives a short introduction to it for newbies to the program. If there is no on-line page specific to a task, takes you to the main tune smithy page on the web site.

Since the help for Tune Smithy is currently a bit out of date and needs to be redone completely for the new 3.0 release, then you may find the on-line page for some of the newer tasks particularly useful.

Organise Windows = F2

Reset, or Save settings for this window. RIGHT CLICK for all windows menu...

Shows the Organise windows window - which you can use to reset all the parameters for the current window.

You can also use it to save the settings for just this window, or open previously saved parameters for just this window.

Also has a drop list of all the windows and their shortcuts, and related options - some to do with the menu listing, and some to do with window resizing and minimising.

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Tip of the day - For All category - right click for neighbouring windows...

Left click for a tip of the day in this category.

Right click to see a menu of neighbouring windows.

The neighbours are the ones you most often move to after this one or within a minute of this one, arranged by popularity.

So as you continue to use FTS, it will learn your habits, and the neighbouring windows listed here, should be the ones you most often visit after this one.

Neighbours, and Previous - Up - Next

Recently visited Files & File Types (Ctrl + 183)

N.B. This list of neighbours may change when these pages are updated.