Poseidon for UML: Users Guide
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# Appearance

Figure 7-2. The Appearance settings tab.

- Look and Feel - Determines the look and feel of the Poseidon user interface. You can change the interface appearance by choosing an entry from this list. The list of options is determined by the operating system under which Poseidon is running.

  It may sometimes be necessary to change the Look and Feel from outside of the Settings dialog (as with MacOS X and Java combinations). To change this, use the following procedure:

  1. Start Poseidon, then shut it down again.

  2. Open the Poseidon.properties file in a text editor. In Windows, this is found in: `C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\poseidon2\<Poseidon Version>`

  3. Change the line

         poseidon.init.laf=...

     to

         poseidon.init.laf=com.incors.plaf.alloy.AlloyLookAndFeel

  4. Save this file and restart Poseidon.

- Show tips on program start - If checked, a `Tip of the Day` dialog appears when you start up the program.

- Show bird view perspective - If checked, the Overview pane shows the bird's-eye perspective. The speed of Poseidon increases when the bird's-eye perspective is disabled.

- Adjust birdview to diagram size - If checked, the bird's-eye view is scaled to show all elements of the currently selected diagram.

- Show To Do (Critics) pane - If checked, the Overview pane displays the ToDo/Critics tab.

- Perform automatic critiquing - If checked, suggestions and possible conflicts or flaws will be automatically logged in the ToDo/Critics tab.

- Tabs in diagram view - If checked, the diagram view shows the most recently viewed diagrams as tabs over the Diagram pane. This allows for faster navigation between the diagrams.

- max. number of tabs - If checked, the maximum number of tabs in the Diagram pane is limited to the specified value.

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