Menubar and toolbars
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Chapter 3. Menubar and toolbars

The Main KHangMan Window

The Game menu has 3 items: New, Get Words in New Language... and Quit.

New brings you a new game, that is, a new word to guess, in the same level you already are. Get Words in New Language... will display the Get New Stuff dialog to allow you to download data in a new language. Quit quits the game by closing the main window and writing the actual settings in the configuration file.

The Level menu allows you to choose the level, that is, the difficulty of the word to guess.

The Languages menu allows you to change the language the words are displayed in.

The Look menu proposes two themes: the Sea Theme and the Desert Theme. The background and the font colors changes for each theme.

The Settings menu allows you to configure KHangMan easily. First, Toolbars and Show Statusbar give you the possibility to hide/show the toolbars and statusbar.

There are two toolbars: the main one which is the one on top with the buttons and combo boxes and the Special Characters toolbar which, when it is shown, is on the bottom. This toolbar has buttons with the special characters for each language: accented letters and other special characters. This allows users to easily play in another language without having to configure a new keyboard layout. You click on a special letter and it is displayed as the letter to try. Pressing Enter will make the program see if the letter is present in the word or not. The toolbar can be hidden if you don't want it. This is saved in the configuration file so if the toolbar is hidden, it will be hidden next time you run KHangMan.

Tip

It is of course possible to move the toolbars around. Put the mouse cursor on the small handle on the left of the toolbar, press the left mouse button and drag the toolbar to position it on the screen where you want it. If you point the mouse on one of the toolbars and press the right mouse button, a context menu appears to let you choose different options for the toolbar.

Configure Shortcuts... is a standard KDE setting dialog that allows you to choose different shortcut keys for different actions. For example, Ctrl+Q is the standard shortcut for Quit.

Configure Toolbars... is also a standard KDE menu item that allows you to add or suppress items from the toolbar.


KHangMan Desert theme

Here you have KHangMan with the Desert theme, Catalan language and level Easy. The Characters toolbar is shown here.

The level is chosen with a combo box in the toolbar or via the Level menu in the menubar. The available levels are Easy, Medium, Animals and Hard. Easy is related to common objects a child aged six or seven knows. Medium regards nouns a bit more challenging, hard is quite difficult and animals is only animals nouns.

All words are nouns. No verbs, no adjectives. The chosen level is then displayed on the statusbar.

Only letters are allowed to be typed in the text box.

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