jVLT - a vocabulary learning tool
Settings
Appearance Settings
In the "Appearance" tab the following settings can be made:- Look and feel: The look and feel determines the general appearance of the application. How many look and feels are available depends on the operating system. Note that adjusting the application fonts is only possible if the "Metal" look and feel is used.
- Button, menu, label and list font
- Table and text field font
- Font of the "Original" field: This setting is especially useful for languages with complicated characters, like Chinese or Japanese. It determines the font of the "Original" field in the detailed view.
- Font of the "Pronunciation" field: You can also select the font for displaying the pronunciation in the detailed view.
- Locale: This setting determines the language of the application's strings.
- Fields shown in the HTML area: Here you can select which fields are shown in the detailed view of the vocabulary tab.
General Settings
In the "General" tab you can currently make the following settings:- Restore previously open file on startup: If you select this checkbox, jVLT remembers which file you worked on during your last session and loads it on the next startup.
- Print font: By pressing on the font button, you can change the font used for printing.
- Input answer: With this checkbox, you determine whether you want to enter the solution during a quiz.
- Ignore upper and lower case of entered answer: Determines whether the entered answer will be checked for upper and lower case. If the checkbox is selected, the answer "spain" for the word "Spain" will be considered correct.
- Set default answer If this checkbox is selected, you can set a default answer (either "Yes" or "No") for each word in a quiz.
- Show pronunciation: If this option is selected, in a quiz the pronunciation of the word is shown as a hint.
Expiration time
The expiration time determines when a word becomes active again after a quiz (see the quiz section). There are three settings to modify the expiration time:- Number of batches: The maximum batch number assigned to a word. If a word which already has the maximum batch number is known during a quiz, its batch number does not change (normally it increases by one).
- Expiration factor: Determines the time after which a word becomes active again. If X is the expiration factor a word assigned to batch No. i becomes active after Xi-1 time units. I.e. a word on batch No. 1 becomes active after one time unit, a word on batch No. 2 after X time units, a word on batch No. 3 after X2 time units etc.
- Unit: The time unit can either be days or hours.
Multimedia Settings
In this tab, you can adjust how multimedia files specified in the word dialog are handled by jVLT.
- Play audio files immediately after the word has been selected: By toggling this check box, jVLT automatically plays audio files if you select a word in the word list.
File types
In the "File types" area external commands to play/show multimedia files can be defined. Pressing "Edit" or "Add" opens a new dialog which lets you edit a certain file type. The meaning of the dialog's components is described below:- File extension: The file extension, e.g. "mp3". For the default file types, this value cannot be changed.
- Type: The file type. This setting is optional, it only determines which icon is used in the detailed word view .
- Use jVLT to play/show: You can only select this checkbox for the default file types. If it is selected, jVLT will try to play a file itself instead of using an external command.
- Command: The command to use for playing/showing a file with the current extension. You have to add %f as a placeholder for the file name.
