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ROES Client User's Guide: Settings Area
The settings area is the region at the bottom of the application, containing several photographer, order, and application-wide settings.
Clear Caches displays a dialog allowing the user to remove the application files from their drive, in case these have become corrupted. This typically requires the application to be downloaded again from the Natural Color Lab website.
About shows a dialog with credits and acknowledgements.
Preferences contains several items that affect the way the application behaves.
Search Enclosed: when checked, causes the thumbnail area "Folder..." control to search the selected folder and all subfolders for images.
Show Image Thumbnails: when checked, shows a representative thumbnail of the image. When unchecked, a placeholder standard image is used.
Mark Ordered Thumbnails: when checked, shows a border around all images that have been added to an order.
Show Queue Window When Sending : when checked, automatically brings the Queue window up when send is selected.
Show hot areas when editing nodes: faintly highlights avaliable nodes when image is picked up and dragged
Revert to edit tool after draw: switches focus automatically to edit tools after drawing
Show Banner: enables or disables banner running along the top of the ROES client.
Show prices (requires relaunch): when unchecked, all prices in the application will be hidden. Otherwise, lab pricing is shown.
Use pro tool layout: rearranges the commonly used tools and preferences so that they are available in the layout area for quicker access.
Auto rotate effects print sizes instead of images: rotates the print size template instead of the image itself.
When autorotating, do so counterclockwise: changes the direction of the rotation applied when auto rotating.
"My Information" displays a dialog of information that a photographer should supply to place orders. This dialog allows the user to provide some basic information needed in order to create and send an order into Natural Color Lab.
"Open & Save" allows orders that have already been sent to be opened again for the purpose of starting a new order based on the previous one. To open a previously saved order, select "Open an Incomplete Order..." from this menu, then use the file dialog to browse to an incomplete order file, typically ending in ".xml.enc" or ".zip.enc". ".xml.enc" files don't have the images included in them, and are saved via the "Save this Incomplete Order..." menu item. These are intended for use when a user's order entry is interrupted and she wishes to continue ordering later. ".zip.enc" order files have the images in them and are ready for processing by the lab. Although these types of orders can be reopened, doing so simply starts a new order based on the previous one. This does not modify the order sent to the lab. If a ".zip.enc" order is opened and then sent to the lab, a duplicate order will be created.
"Show Queued Orders..." item in "Open & Save" will open a dialog of orders waiting to be sent, as well as past orders.
Select the queued orders you wish to send now in the top area, and press the "Send" button. While uploading queued orders, other orders can be created and manipulated. Queuing orders is covered in the Order Completion section.
"Review Order" shows the Order Review dialog and is covered in the Order Review section.
