The JFC Interface

This chapter describes JFC's basic interface. Some of the later information here is advanced, and you may want to come back and review it again later.

  • Main Display
  • Help
  • Japanese Text Controls
  • Choose Color Dialog Box (Windows CE)

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  • Main Display

    Below is a sample JFC display from a Windows 98 machine. (There are slight differences in display for some of the versions, however, they are all basically similar.)

    The main elements of the display are:

    Note that many of the display elements can be disabled via the Options dialog box.

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    Help

    JFC has extensive online help. Virtually the entire contents of the manual can be accessed through the help system.

    Accessing Help

    There are a number of different methods that can be used to access help. Selecting the command Help/Main Index..., will bring you the main help index. Pressing the F1 key from almost any location will also bring you to the help system. Further, if you are working within a dialog box JFC will automatically jump to help for the dialog box that you are in.

    Clicking on the question icon (located in the upper right of the window) will also bring you to the help system. Like the F1 key, if you are working within a dialog box JFC will automatically jump to help for the dialog box that you are in.


    WARNING! When using the question icon on Windows 95 systems, when you click on the question icon, the cursor will change to a question mark pointer. You can then click on an object you want help on. JFC's help system, however, is based on the dialog box (or window), not on the actual control within a window.

    Navigating the Help

    JFC's help system is designed to be used in a number of different ways:

    Windows CE and Help

    JFC implements help using Pocket Internet Explorer. Due to errors in how Pocket Internet Explorer works, some help features are not implemented the same way on Windows CE systems. First, because Pocket Internet Explorer does not support a full URL specification*, help cannot always place you at the actual topic in question, but can only place you at the beginning of the chapter. Second, because of some format failings** in the Pocket Internet Explorer some information is not formatted as well as they should be. I assume these errors will be fixed in later versions.

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    * Pocket Internet Explorer does not process the part of the URL indicating an actual part of the file (#...) when passed on the command line.

    ** Pocket Internet Explorer interprets BLOCKQUOTE tag differently than all other browsers.


    Japanese Text Controls

    JFC makes extensive use of Japanese text controls. In some ways, these are similar to windows text controls that simply display static text, except they display Japanese text. In JFC, these controls only display text and cannot be used to enter text.

    The text controls in JFC have some features that normal Windows text controls do not have. In particular, these controls can hold more text than is normally displayed. Clicking on the control may show hidden text (this is a flash card program after all), or may scroll through a number of different types of text (kanji, on-yomi, kun-yomi, and meaning for example). The exact action that occurs when you click on the control depends on the current flash card displayed, and the settings in the Options dialog.

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    Choose Color Dialog Box (Windows CE)

    Windows CE does not contain a standard color selection dialog box, thus JWPce includes a custom color selection box. This dialog box can be used to set the color used for Color Kanji color.

    The dialog box contains 36 Predefined Colors, as well as Red, Green, and Blue controls for specifying custom colors. When you select a predefined color the Red, Green, and Blue edit boxes will be set to the values for that color, so you can use the Predefined Colors as a basis for custom colors. (the range on the color selection boxes is 0 to 255.)

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