Options

Options can be changed from the Options menu.

Most of the options from the options screens are self-explanatory - except:

Appearance

- Look And Feel - the combo box will be populated only with the installed look and feels in your JRE. Some of the L&Fs from Java are not so appealing with BORG. The PlasticXP look and feel is distributed with BORG to make sure you have at least one good looking one. If you change the look and feel, restart BORG to have it take effect.

- Week View Start and End Hour – the range of times shown on both the Week and Day View grids.

- Holidays - Most US and Canadian holidays can be shown (optionally). Except for Christmas, religious/ethnic holidays are not included - mainly because they are usually lunar based and harder to calculate - and because they aren't usually a day off from work. These can be added manually through the appointment editor.

- Truncate Appointments in Month View – this is set by default and causes only the first line of appointment text to show in the month view. If you want all lines of multi-line appointments to show in the month view, shut this feature off.

Database Information

Apply DB Change will change the BORG database location and exit the program. The new location takes effect when the program is restarted. No data is copied and the original database is not removed. If you just want to move or copy db files to a new location – just copy them and change to the new location from the options screen.

Email Parameters

An email message is sent once a day only, and only for the next day's appointments. Provide the name of an SMTP server and email address to send to.

Miscellaneous

- Show Stack Trace Option – if an error occurs and this option is set, a button will appear with the error screen to generate a stack trace. This can be used for debugging the error and can be sent to the developers. This need not be turned on unless debugging is being done.

- Socket Port – setting a value here, (2929 is the default), will allow the program to detect when another copy is running. If you start a second copy of BORG when one is already running, and the socket port is set, the second copy will just open the running copy and exit.