Preferences Dialog

Display and Appearance
Song
Song Chords and Slide Labels
Scripture
Presentation
Alerts
Monitor
Advanced
Streaming

Any new settings are saved by switching tabs or closing the dialog

Sections can be opened and closed by clicking the section labels.

Display and Appearance

Language

Choose the required language from the list.

The use of this feature requires a language dll file that is available for some languages in the bible download from the Songview website. (They must be downloaded and installed separately from the inbuilt bible version dialog download.)

The dialog box and tab fonts can be changed from the Windows default if the language is not supported. This setting is on the Advanced tab Display and Appearance section

The changes will not be effective until Songview is restarted.

Theme

Songview has four built in themes

• Light
• Mid Light
• Mid Dark
• Dark

and a fully customisable theme.

Selecting 'Custom' sets the customisable colours to the current theme and displays the theme colour patches. You can use the Reset Custom Colours To button to set the colours to Windows default or a built in theme. Clicking the colour patches allows customised setting of individual colours.

A theme change requires Songview to be restarted; the setting including any customised colours is retained.

Playlist

Playlist font size	The width and height of the Playlist are adjusted accordingly
Selected slide frame colour	Sets the colour of the frame surrounding a slide preview when selected for display. The slide preview will also show a green triangular marker in the top left hand corner.

Song

CCL Licence

Enter licence number in text field and change font if required; this affects both the licence number and song credits.

Song Select

Display in new window	Opens new browser window for Song Select imports
Use default URL	Uses default Song Select URL, uncheck to customise the URL

Credits

Choose the credits display position and the first or last slide options; leaving these unchecked displays the credits on every slide.

Song Appearance

These settings are the default for all songs and slides in the song library and are applied immediately. Font face and colour, background colour and slide margins can be set for individual songs and slides during editing.

Song theme	Select predefined theme from drop-down
Edit	Opens Theme Manager to edit existing theme or create a new one; check the Apply theme to all songs box if required.
Hide Song Tree	Hides the Numbers tab
Show titles page	Adds a front page for each song with its title
Font	Select the font for the titles page
Centre text horizontal	Centres title horizontally on titles page
Centre text vertical	Centres title vertically on titles page
Show title with 1st verse	Displays title on first slide of each song
Font	Select the font for the song title

Fades

Fades can be used during slide and song changes; 32 bit graphics capabilities are required.

Words	Fade words in and out depending on fade mode
Songs only	Fades words between song changes
Slides and songs	Fades words during song and slide changes
Backgrounds	Fade backgrounds between songs
Dissolving fades	Song or slide fades out as the new one fades in
Fade rate Fast	Rapid fades, about half a second
Fade rate Medium	Fade time about one second
Fade rate Slow	Two seconds fade time
Fade rate Very Slow	Five seconds fade time

Edit

Use song colour scheme	Uses same scheme as slide
Text Colour	Choose text colour
Background colour	Choose background colour
Use song font	Uses same font as slide
Font	Choose font
Fast Refresh	Generates slide preview directly speeding up refresh time while typing
Use spell checking	Enables spell checker
Choose language	Choose language from list

Dictionary files are located in the Dictionaries directory; UK and US English dictionaries are provided, some additional dictionaries are included in Bible downloads from the Songview website. Others are obtainable from www.openoffice.org. Both .aff and .dic files are required.

Song Tags

Add Tags
Type the new tag name in the New Tag field, the maximum number of characters is 15 and Click Add.
The maximum number of tags allowed is 24.

Edit Tags
Select tag in list and click Edit to edit it, song associations are maintained.
Click Delete to delete selected tag.
Clear All delete all tags.

Deleting a tag will remove all references to it in the song file.

Song Chords and Slide Labels

Chords

Dialog to setup use and appearance of chords and to add customised chords to the standard chords included with the application.

Use chords	Enables chords in song library. Chords will be shown on a third monitor (stage monitor) if available otherwise on the main display.
Show on main output	Show on main display where a third monitor is connected.

The monitor assignment can be changed on the Monitor Tab to use the control PC display as the stage monitor, a second monitor/projector is required for the main output.

Check Redirect Keys to Playlist on the Advanced tab Display and Appearance section to progress through the slides and songs in the Playlist using keystrokes or a pedal.

Appearance

The chord font, colour and background colour can be changed using the buttons. A transparent background will be used unless Show background is checked.

Custom Chord List

Up to 8 customised chords can be added to the song file.
To add a chord type it in the New Chord field and Click Add.

Select a chord in the list and click Edit to edit it, song usage is maintained.

Click Delete to delete selected chord.
Clear All deletes all chords.
Deleting a chord will remove all usages in the song file.

Slide Labels

Songview has eight predefined slide labels and a further eight custom labels can be added. If labels are enabled they show as a coloured border and title around the slide preview window.

Edit	Allows editing of the text of a selected custom label
Delete	Deletes the selected custom label
Clear All	Clears All custom labels
Add	Adds a new custom label using the supplied text; up to 15 characters allowed.
Colour	Change the background colour for the selected label
Text Colour	Change the text colour for the selected label
Reset	Reset the colours of the selected label to default

Scripture

Dialog for setting the appearance of bible texts.

Default bible	Select the default bible
Default verses per slide	Select the number of verses shown on each slide
Bible theme	Select a pre-defined theme for the bible text
Edit	Edit the selected theme or create a new one
Credits font	Select a font for the bible credits

Presentation

Dialog for setting default font, backgrounds and text positioning for editable presentations.

Slideshow

Inherit from song defaults

Use default settings from the Song tab

Text box

Font	Select font
Text colour	Select text colour
Background colour	Select background colour for textbox
Centre text horizontal	Centres text horizontally in textbox
Centre text vertical	Centres text vertically in textbox
Transparent	Use text boxes with transparent backgrounds
Text Margins	Enter value in pixels in left, right and top fields

Slide

Background colour

Select background colour for slide

All default settings can be over-ridden by editing individual slides and textboxes.
The changes only affect new slides and textboxes.

Alerts

Use for setting up Alert preferences

Font	Select alert text font
Text colour	Select text colour
Background colour	Select background colour
Transparent	Toggles background to transparent
Display Mode Normal	Alert is displayed for required time at selected screen position
Display Mode Scroll	Alert text is scrolled across screen at selected speed for number of times chosen.
Display Mode Flash	Alert is displayed and flashed on and off for required time at selected screen position
Number of passes	Number of passes for scrolling alerts before cancelling
Display Time sec	Display time in seconds for normal and flashing alerts
Scroll time sec	Time to scroll across screen in seconds for scrolling alerts
Screen position	Click on button to select position on screen for alert text display

Monitor

Monitors

Identify screen	Shows current screen names and assignments
Select monitor	Select monitor to change name or link
Link	Opens the Link Screens dialog to extend or duplicate the screens or to swap their positions.
Rename monitor	Sets a local name for monitor - this does not affect the Windows system name.
Assign Monitors	Opens the Assign Monitors dialog to set the function of each monitor
Windows Display Settings	Opens the Windows Display Settings Dialog
Reset monitor information	Used to reset the registry monitor information if the Songview display settings do not work correctly.
Single monitor aspect ratio	Songview sets the slide aspect ration to match the display screen or the PC monitor where no other screen is connected. Use to override this default ensuring correct slide formatting when editing with a computer with a single monitor.
Use NDI for projector output	The projected display will also be sent to the Songview - Output NDI channel.

Stage monitor

Customise	Allows setting of custom font and background colours and font size, otherwise default colours and font size are used.
Show backgrounds	Displays background pictures on stage monitor
Show credits	Displays credits on stage monitor

Clock

None	Hides clock
Small	Shows time on stage monitor as a small display at the top left of the screen replacing the credits line.
Medium	Shows time on stage monitor as a medium display at the top left of the screen replacing the credits line.
Large	Shows time on stage monitor as a large display at the top left of the screen replacing the credits line.
Full screen	Full screen displays the time at fill screen width replacing the normal output.

Advanced

Display and Appearance

Font for tab controls	Use the default Windows font or select desired font face. This can be useful for non-Latin scripts.
Redirect keys to Playlist	When checked the Page Up, Page Down, Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End keystrokes are redirected to the Playlist during display mode. The arrow keys will also progress to the next or previous Playlist item on progressing from the last slide of a song or back from the first slide of a song. This allows keyboard control of the playlist item being displayed.
Use touch interface	Enables touch interface during display mode
Tabs setup	Click on one of the tab colour patches to change the colour of the tab. Use the check box to set the default tab selection of start up. Reset tab colours resets to the default colours.

Song Backgrounds

Use Backgrounds	Turn off to prevent use of backgrounds
Clear Background Pictures	Remove all background picture associations with songs. This does not delete the background files.
Backgrounds Location	Sets a new default background folder location. The normal default location is C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Songview\Backgrounds.

Saving

Start with last file used	Starts application with last opened song library
Save file on exit	Saves any changes to the song library on exiting the program

Internet

Disable Internet Access	Check to prevent internet access, access checking and browser loading on starting Songview
Default URL	Sets the default URL (Home page) for the browser on startup

Playlist emails

Songview will send an email with all the song words from the current playlist to the email accounts in the table. This is done from the Tools menu.
The Name and Email fields are used to add emails to the list. Highlight the name in the left column to edit or delete an entry.

Streaming

Background Alpha Channel Colour

Choose the background colour for the slides - this must be the same as the colour set for transparency on the video stream.

Use NDI for streaming output

The projected display will be as normal and the streaming output sent to the Songview - Streaming NDI channel.

Use NDI for projector output

The projected display will be as normal and will also be sent to the Songview - Output NDI channel.

Bible / Song setup.

Choose the setup required - both should be completed.

Margins	Enter value in pixels in left, right and top fields; 10 to 50 pixels is usually satisfactory. Alternatively use the default settings
Centre text horizontal	Centres text horizontally on frame
Centre text vertical	Centres text vertically on frame
Fit words to slides	Adjusts text size so that words do not overflow frame

Colour	Choose main text colour
Text colour gradient	Use a colour gradient for the font - top to bottom
Colour 2	Second colour used for the bottom of the font
Font	Select font type, size and style
Text outline	Use a text outline border
Colour	Outline colour
Size	Outline thickness
Outline glow effect	Applies a translucent glow effect to the outline
Text shadow	Applies a shadow to the font
Colour	Shadow colour
Size	Shadow size
Shadow style	Choose shadow style: Normal, diffuse, dropped or extruded.
Transparent shadow	Makes the shadow translucent

Line spacing	Set the line spacing - 85 to 200% of normal
Word spacing	Set the word spacing - 85 to 200% of normal
Lines per slide (on Song setup)	Sets the number of lines of the song or of the bible verses to show in the frame. Song lines must be terminated by a return.
Verses per slide (on Bible setup)	Sets the number of bible verses per slide; verses may be split across frames if the number of lines per frame is exceeded. Song lines must be terminated by a return.
Reset to default position	Sets the sizing frame to the default slide margins
Sizing Frame	Adjust the frame to the required size with the mouse and drag it to the required position within the slide.