24Guru User's Guide

10. How to Become a Master in Calculating 24? Contents A.1 Irrelevant Solutions

11. Adjusting UI Layout, Background Image or Background Music

11.2 Switching between Enlarged UI and Normal UI

11.3 Adjusting Background Image / Background Color

11.1 Adjusting UI Language

You can choose between 3 UI languages - English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. You can do it by checking corresponding language name from under the "UI" submenu.

11.2 Switching between Enlarged UI and Normal UI

The normal UI of 24Guru is enough in most cases. However, sometimes you may run into a question with a long list of answers, or you may want to submit a long list of answers to be checked by 24Guru. In the second situation, an enlarged UI may be more comfortable.

You can switch on or off enlarged UI by checking on or off the menu item "Enlarged UI" under the "UI" submenu.

11.3 Adjusting Background Image / Background Color

You can choose any bitmap file as the background image of 24Guru. If you like pure color, you can also pick any color as its background. You can decide the configuration for background image or background color in the "Background" dialog box which can be opened by clicking the "Background..." command from under the "UI" submenu.

Besides setting background image in this dialog, there is also a much simpler way to set the background image - when you drag any suitable bitmap (.bmp) file from the Windows Explorer to the main UI of 24Guru, the image in this file will be set as the background image of 24Guru immediately.

11.4 Adjusting Background Sound Effect

There are two kinds of music/sound effect for 24Guru:

1) Background music - general background music, background music for training, training game and the 4 World Cup games.

2) Event sound - sound effect when some event happens, such as when 24Guru responses "true" or "false" after you submitted an answer or answer list.

The background music under different situations can be set individually at the "Background Music" dialog, which can be opened by the menu command "Background Music..." under "Music" submenu. You can set background music as well as enable background music or not for each scene - general, training, training game...etc.

Usually the background music for a scene should be a midi music (".mid" or ".rmi") file, but a waveform (".wav") file is also acceptable. The music will be played in loop.

Same as setting background images, you can also drag a music file onto 24Guru to be the background music for current scene. When dragging a music file to 24Guru, besides ".mid", ".rmi" and ".wav" file, you can also set ".mp3" and ".wma" file as the background music, 24Guru will run the default MP3 or WMA player, such as WinAMP, to play the file. No loop will be available if the background music is an MP3 or WMA file. If you really hope to play it again after the default player has finished playing such music file, you can switch off and then on the "Music On" command under "Music" submenu to do it.

If you don't like to listen to any sound - background music or event sound - at all, you can switch off the "Music On" flag under the "Music" submenu.