If checked, beeps (hex 07 characters) received from the MUD will play the system beep sound.
Browse...
Click to browse for a sound file (.wav file) to play instead of the system beep.
Test
Click to test the current beep sound.
UTF-8 (Unicode)
If checked, incoming text will be treated as UTF-8 (Unicode characters encoded using the UTF-8 encoding system) and displayed as such. This will allow different character encodings (Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Russian etc.) to be displayed correctly. Due to the difficulty of testing this properly, this is somewhat of an experimental feature. Important - in order to display Unicode characters properly, you must use a Unicode font. Some fonts do not have the character encodings for Unicode characters. An example font to try would be Lucida Console, or Lucida Sans Unicode.
Text offset from edge (pixels):
Enter a number from 0 to 20 to offset the output window down, and to the right, of the edge of the window. You can use this is you find the text annoyingly close to the window edge.
Line spacing (pixels):
Enter the number of pixels that you want each line of text to be apart. You can use this to widen the gap between lines. For a 9-point font, a reasonable figure might be 15 points. Make zero to take the default font spacing.
Font...
Click to choose the font to use in the output window (the upper window).
Override with default
If checked, the default font (set in Global Preferences) is used intead of the world's font.
Show bold
If checked, bold (highlight) characters from the MUD show as bold (thicker). If unchecked they are rendered in the same font as normal characters.
Show italic
If checked, italic (and blink) characters from the MUD show in italic. If unchecked they are rendered in the same font as normal characters.
Show underline
If checked, underline characters from the MUD show underlined. If unchecked they are rendered in the same font as normal characters.
New activity sound
You can play a nominated "sound" file when new activity arrives for a MUD that is not the frontmost window.
Then, when output arrives for this MUD, and the MUD's window is not at the front, the nominated sound will be played.
Browse...
Click to select a "wave" file (ie. a file whose name ends in .WAV), a "MIDI" file (ie. a file whose name ends in .MID), or a sequencer file (ie. a file whose name ends in .RMI).
Test
Click to test the new activity sound.
No sound
Click if you do not want a new activity sound played.
Number of lines in output buffer:
Enter the number of recent MUD output lines to save (for scrolling back purposes). The higher the number, the further you can scroll back. The maximum is currently 500,000 lines. However, if you have multiple worlds open at once, all set to remember the maximum number of lines, you may find MUSHclient will eventually consume quite a bit of memory, as these lines are saved in memory.
If you find your system running low on memory, try reducing the number of lines here.
You may find a sharp degradation of performance if you choose to store so many lines in your output buffer that some have to be "paged" to disk. The degradation of performance is due to the fact that memory access speeds (usually very fast) are degraded to disk access speeds (somewhat slower). If this happens, try reducing the size of your output buffer. Smallish figures like 5,000 lines should be fine, however you may find problems storing 100,000 lines or more, depending on how much system memory you have installed. Alternatively, since memory is cheap these days, you could install more memory.
Wrap output at column number:
When this is checked, output from the MUD is wrapped at the nominated column in such a way that words are not broken into two (the line is wrapped at the previous space). You can choose to wrap at a column between 20 and 500.
If you are using a small font (or have a large screen) you may wish to wrap output at more than column 80. If you like using a large font, or have a small screen (or both) you may prefer to wrap output at a smaller column size (say, 40).
Show Line Information
When this is checked, if you move the mouse over any line in the output area for about a second, a "tooltip" window will pop up and show the line number (since the start of the session), the date/time it was received, and the word "(input)" if you typed the line yourself, or "(note)" if the line was generated by the "note" command in a script. The "tooltip" window will automatically disappear after about 5 seconds, or if you move the mouse, or if the window is scrolled.
Start Paused
If this is checked, this world will start "paused" next time you connect to it.
Auto Pause
If this is checked, the output window will pause if you scroll backwards to view previous output. It will then un-pause when you return to the bottom of the window (eg. by pressing Ctrl+End).
Un-Pause on send
If this is checked, sending a command to the MUD will un-pause the output window. The intention here is that you may have paused the window while you scroll back and look at something, but as soon as you enter a new command, want to see the effect that it has.
New activity flashes taskbar
If this is checked, if there is new activity in this world, and MUSHclient is not the foreground program, then its icon on the Windows taskbar will flash, to alert you that there is new activity for the world.
Disable compression
If this is checked, decompression of text from a server supporting MUD Client Compression Protocol (MCCP) will be disabled. You would not normally check this unless you are having problems with compressed data.
Indent paragraphs
When this is checked, when output from the MUD is wrapped at column 80, the subsequent lines of paragraphs are indented by a single space, to make it easier to recognised new paragraphs. If you do not wish this to happen, uncheck this option.
Negotiate About Window Size (NAWS)
If checked, when you resize your window, a special telnet sequence will be sent to the MUD server to let it know your screen width and height. This is helpful for some servers that automatically "page" output depending on the client window size. If you don't think you need it, leave it unchecked.
Adjust width to size
By clicking on this button the column number to wrap at will be selected as the closest that text can wrap at the edge of the current window size. Use this to adjust the output width to maximize the amount you can fit into the window size you have chosen.
Adjust size to width
By clicking on this button the window size will be adjusted to exactly fit the number of columns you have selected for wrapping purposes. Use this to have the output window the correct width for your chosen number of columns.
Auto-wrap to window size
If checked, when you resize the world window, the number of columns that MUD output wraps at is automatically recalculated to match the new size.
Alternative inverse/highlight display
This selects a different way of display inverse highlighted text.
Show connect/disconnect message
If checked, a message is entered in the output window every time you are connected and disconnected.
Copy selection to Clipboard
If checked, selecting text in the output window automatically places it on the clipboard, without needing to select the Copy command.
HTML
If checked, automatically-copied text is copied in HTML format.
Convert IAC EOR/GA to new line
If checked, incoming IAC EOR or IAC GA sequences are converted to newlines. This lets you put triggers on prompt lines and have them fire immediately, if the MUD terminates prompts with IAC EOR (0xFF 0xEF) or IAC GA (0xFF 0xF9).
Also, the sequence IAC WILL EOR will be responded to with IAC DO EOR (or IAC DO EOR) if the option is checked, and IAC DONT EOR if the option is not checked. However in this case EOR is 0x19.
Telnet Terminal Type:
Enter the type of terminal that MUSHclient reports when doing telnet negotiation.
See Also ...
Command
ConfigureOutput (Sets output options)(Help topic: dialog=IDD_PREFS_P14)
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