Some preferences can be changed in a dedicated dialog window. Click
. Select a category in the list to the left of the dialog window. The categories and their preferences are:Editing
Deselecting the inline text edit box
commits changes
:
If this option is not checked (default) changes made to an inline edit box are discarded if you leave the edit box without explicitly committing the changes. This happens for instance if you click outside the current edit box.
If this option is checked changes are committed if you leave the current inline edit box.
Enter key commits changes in the inline
edit box
:
If this option is not checked (default) pressing ENTER will insert a line break (a.k.a. newline) in an inline edit box. To commit the changes you should hit CTRL+ENTER.
If this option is checked ENTER will not insert a line break. It commits the changes as if you pressed CTRL+ENTER.
Clear Selection after creating or editing
an annotation
This option makes ELAN clear the selection after creating or editing an annotation
Media
Media navigation: Frame forward and frame
backward jump to begin of next or previous
frame
:
If this option is not checked (default) clicking the frame forward button (see Section 4.3.12) will put the crosshair forward by the amount of ms in one frame. So if the crosshair is in the middle of a frame, clicking frame forward will put the crosshair in the middle of the next frame. The same goes for frame backward.
If this option is checked the crosshair is put at the beginning of the next (or previous) frame no matter where it is in the current frame.
Video display: All video's the same size,
in a single row
:
When there are three or four video's linked, only one of them is displayed big; the others are small. Check this option If you want all video's to be displayed in the same size and in a single row.
Media location: Set default directory for media files
Click
to set a default directory. ELAN searches this directory for a media file if it fails to find it using the absolute or relative path the .eaf file refers to or the same directory the .eaf file is in.Metadata
Check the metadata keys you want to display in the Metadata tab in the main window by default. (See also Section 4.3.8.)
Platform/OS
Mac OS X:
Use screen menu bar
: if checked
ELAN will use the screen menu bar in Mac OS
Use Mac Look and Feel
: if checked
ELAN will use the Mac OS Look and Feel. Otherwise a
platform independent (i.e. Java) look and feel is used.
Note that if the option Use screen menu
bar
is checked, ELAN will use the Mac Look and
Feel, even if you have Use Mac Look and
Feel
unchecked.
Media Framework: Select either Cocoa
QT
or Quicktime for
Java
Use detached media window
: if
checked ELAN will show the media in a separate window by
default.
Windows:
Media Framework: Select either Native
Windows Media Player (WMP)
, QuickTime
for Java
or Java Media
Framework
Preferences
Click on
to browse to and select the directory where ELAN should look for preference files by default.User Interface
Number of recent items
: select
the number of recent edited item ELAN should
remember.
Tooltips
: if checked ELAN will
show tooltips with information about the data or about
the functionality of ELAN, depending on the position of
the mouse cursor.
Viewers
Subtitles
: select the number of
Subtitle Viewers you wish to display in the Subtitle
tab.