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Preferences, General Tab

This tab contains all options modifying the user interface and the summarization of search results.

Interface

These options define some parts of DEVONagent Pro's visual appearance.

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    Highlight occurences in HTML pages: Check to highlight occurences of search words in web browser windowsor views.
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    Automatically zoom search panel: Check to open new search windowssimplified.
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    Floating simplified search panel: Makes the simplified search windowfloat above all other windows. Use this to have the search window always handy.
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    Alternating rows colors in views: When checked, DEVONagent Pro colors lines in lists differently to make them easier to read.

Alerts

Click Reset to make DEVONagent Pro show alerts again that you previously dismissed with "Don't show again" checked.

Search Panel

This option defines which tab DEVONagent Pro shows when a search run is done.

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    Digest: Switches to the Digest tab when DEVONagent Pro has finished a search run.
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    Results: Switches to the Results tab when DEVONagent Pro has finished a search run.
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    Log: Switches to the Log tab when DEVONagent Pro has finished a search run.
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    Settings: Switches to the Settings tab when DEVONagent Pro has finished a search run.

Summarization

These options define how DEVONagent Pro creates summaries.

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    Based on sentences: Creates summaries based on sentences. These are generally shorter summaries, so you may miss information that DEVONagent Pro classifies as not important.
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    Based on paragraphs: Creates summaries based on whole paragraphs. These are longer summaries that are not clipped.

Startup

These options let you define what DEVONagent Pro does when you open it.

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    Open new query: Opens a new, empty search window when you open DEVONagent Pro.
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    Open new browser: Opens a new web browser window when you open DEVONagent Pro.
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    Open browsers that were open on quit: Opens the web browser windows that were open on quit.
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    Do nothing: Does nothing when you open DEVONagent Pro.

Home page, ...

These options define the default home page and the folder for downloaded files.

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    Home page: Sets the home page that is loaded automatically each time you open a new web browser window.
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    Save downloaded files to: Sets the folder into which DEVONagent Pro saves downloaded files. Read more...

Fonts

Define the fonts you want to use for searching and reading texts. Click the Select buttons to open the standard font panel. Hold the ⌥ Option key to reveal options for resetting the fonts to the defaults.

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    Source font: Changes the font used for displaying source code. A monospaced font, such as Courier or Monaco, gives you the best results.
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    Text font: Changes the font used for displaying plain text, e.g., text extracted from webpages.