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Settings Screen (GUI Settings)

In FJ Flow, you can display a graphical settings screen from the "Settings" menu in the system tray to customize usability and appearance in real time.

In FJ Flow, you can display a graphical settings screen from the “Settings” menu in the system tray to customize usability and appearance in real time. While the Free version allows you to launch the settings screen and make temporary customizations, the Pro version is required to automatically save and load your changes, or to import and export them to/from a file.

Key Features of the GUI

  • Flat Design and Improved Visibility:
    • A modern, flat design that completely eliminates 3D effects and recessed borders.
    • The cancel button is designed with a white background and gray text to maintain high visibility while preventing accidental clicks and confusion with the save button.
  • Expanded Window Size and Bug Resolving:
    • The GUI height is optimized to 740px, completely fixing issues with sidebar wrapping and broken layouts due to insufficient margins.
    • The “X” (close) button at the top right of the window is hidden, providing a safe design where you must explicitly choose either “Save Settings” or “Cancel” to close the screen.
  • Real-time Application and Preview:
    • The configured values (colors, opacity, blink rate, etc.) are immediately reflected in the preview screen as well as in the actual application behavior.
  • Dynamic Layout Adaptive to Keyboard Layout:
    • When an English (US) keyboard layout is detected at startup, unnecessary “IME-related settings” are automatically hidden. The layout automatically switches to a slim configuration UI focused on swapping CapsLock and Ctrl keys.

Detailed Settings by Tab

1. “Presets” Tab

Apply one of five recommended presets instantly to suit your workflow. The currently active preset will be explicitly marked as “Active”.

  • Default: Standard indicator display and window emphasis.
  • Minimal: Minimize the indicator size and hide it immediately during typing to stay out of your way.
  • Visual Aid (Accessibility): Enlarge the indicator and apply a thick, fading focus border.
  • Presentation: Enable larger text for clear operation readability and active line highlighting.
  • System Monitor: Dynamically link the window emphasis color to the system resource load (CPU/Memory).

2. “Indicators” Tab

  • General Indicators: Toggle visibility, customize text, and set colors.
  • Macro Indicator: Character displayed during macro recording (default: M) and its color.
  • IME Indicator (Japanese Environment Only): Toggle visibility, text, and colors for both IME ON and OFF states.
  • CapsLock Indicator: Character displayed when CapsLock is enabled and its color.
  • Font & Position Settings: Size (6 to 72 pt), bold style toggle, and X/Y axis offsets (-100 to 100 px).
  • Behavior & Auto-hide: Toggle temporary hiding during typing, set delay time before reappearing (1 to 10 seconds), and adjust fade-out speed.

3. “Focus Emphasis” Tab

  • Emphasis Style: Individual settings for the emphasis border (thickness, opacity) and window interior fill (opacity).
  • Color Mode: Toggle between user-specified color (linked to IME state) or CPU/Memory utilization link mode.
  • Blinking: Toggle and set the speed of the smooth fade blinking effect for the emphasis border.

4. “Highlight / Zoom” Tab

  • Highlight: Activation shortcut key, highlight frame height, dimming mask opacity, border color, and thickness.
  • Zoom: Activation shortcut key, zoom magnification ratio (1.0x to 5.0x), zoom window height, border thickness, individual opacity and colors for the window and border, and delay time (in seconds) to fade out after typing stops.

5. “Key Extension” Tab

  • Extension Layer Settings: Indicator characters and colors for layers L1/L2.
  • Mapping Rule Editor: View registered rules list (individual checkboxes to toggle “Guide Display”), add, update, delete, and clear rules.
  • Import / Export (Pro Version Only): Import external key mapping configuration files (KeyExt.json) or save them under a different name.
  • Guide Display Settings: Guide display delay (ms), size, border thickness/color/opacity, background color/opacity, and color palette selections for key name, default value, and command characters.
  • US Layout Settings: Feature to swap CapsLock and Ctrl keys.

6. “Lock Details” Tab

  • Shift Lock Settings: Activation toggle, display character, color, and “One-shot Shift” toggle (which unlocks on the next keypress).
  • Space Shift Settings: Display character (Ⓢ) and color when holding down the Space key.
  • Modifier Key Locks: Toggle lock, display character, and color settings for Ctrl, Alt, and Win keys individually.
  • Import / Export (Pro Version Only): Import the main configuration file (fjFlow.json) or save it under a different name.