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
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:
- title bar: Contains the program name, version, and the current flash card file.
- menu bar: Contains the commands.
- button row: Contains general buttons for the card (show, right, and wrong).
- flash card windows: Flash card space, contains a number of windows indicating elements of the current flash card.
- status-bar: Displays remaining cards in this set, and statistics for current file (right and wrong).
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:
- Contents: Using the Contents button you can return to the contents and look for a topic as you would in a book, using the concept of chapters and sections. You will also notice that the help content is almost the same as the manual contents.
- Index: Using the Index tab on the help contents, you can look for a topic as you would in the index of a book.
- Related Topics: Once you find a topic, you can use the Related Topics section (one is located at the end of every help topic) to find related information. The Related Topics sections will always contain at least two entries, and can contain more. The first group of entries is actually related topics. The second group of entries is actually forward and backward jumps that can be used to read the help file as a book (these may be duplicates).
Below is a sample of the Related Topics section. This section contains four related topics, then the jumps backward and forward through the help file.
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The Statistics File
General Options
Review Options
Dealing with Incorrect Cards
The Flash Card File
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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Next Chapter: Using JFC