Available Settings
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Available Settings

A toolbar is provided for quick access to some settings. You can click on a button to have a new game (i.e. a new word), or to quit the game. The level and the theme are easily changed via 2 combo boxes on the toolbar.

In Settings, Configure KHangMan... you will find tree pages. The first one is for General settings.

General Settings


KHangMan General settings

Require more guesses for duplicate letters: this is unchecked as default. When unchecked, if you try the letter "a" and the word has several as, they will be all displayed. For example if the word is "potato" and you try "o", both os will be diaplayed. If you check this option however, only the first "o" will be displayed and you will have to try it one more time to display the second "o" in "potato". This increases the difficulty.

Do not display the 'Congratulations! You won!' dialog: the default is unchecked, that means that when you win a game, a message box will be displayed to tell you that you won and ask you if you want to play again. If you check this option, this dialog is not displayed anymore, instead a new game starts directly after 3 seconds.

In the Sounds section, if you check Enable sounds then a sound will be played on new game and another sound will be played when you win a game.

Languages Settings

The Languages Settings tab allows you to set some settings specific to some languages. If the settings are not available for the language you are playing in then those settings will be grayed and disabled so you cannot choose them.


KHangMan Languages Settings

Some languages also have hints to help you guess the word. The hint is shown by a right-click and gives a short definition of the word to guess. If this setting is enabled and if you check the option Show hints, you can right mouse button click anywhere on the game and get a hint shown for four seconds. This hint should help you to guess the word more easily.

Type accented letters is available for Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish in KHangMan's configuration dialog. If you check Type accented letters then you will have to type all accented vowels (like ã). If this remains unchecked, when you type any vowel, all accented vowels will be displayed as well.

Timers Settings

The Timers Settings tab allows you to Set the time for displaying the hint and to Set the time for Already Guessed Letter tooltip.


KHangMan Timers Settings

Set the time for displaying the hint: allows you to set a greater time for showing the hint label. It is necessary to increase the time for younger children for example as they read more slowly than adults.

Set the time for displaying the Already Guessed Letter allows you to increase or decrease the time for displaying the Already Guessed Letter tooltip. This tooltip is a label which appears when you tried a letter that was already tried. Some people will want not to see it for long while children will need time to understand it and thus will need to set the display for a longer duration.

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