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General Preferences

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Size: The size of the icons can range from 24 to 128 points. If you have a small screen, it is possible to exceed the screen height if you have a deeply nested folder hierarchy. You will need to reduce the size to something less than the maximum if you want to see all of your panels displayed.

Position: The side of the screen where Station will reside.

Justification: Station panels can be justified to the left, centered, or right sides of the screen. When the position of the panels are vertically oriented, "Left" means justify to the top and "Right" means to justify to the bottom of the screen.

Sound: Set the volume level for all sounds within Station.

Skip confirmations: Bypass warning dialogs for certain operations. In some cases, a sound will be played to alert you that an action was taken.

Open Help at startup: When Station is launched, the help files are shown. This is for first time users.

Appearance Preferences

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Item Colors:
Background Color: The background color for panels.

Folder Color: The overlay color for folder icons.

Alias Folder Color: The overlay color for alias folder icons.

Open Folder Color: The overlay color for the open folders.

Separator Color: The color of separators.

Item Name Color: The color of item names under the icons on each panel.
The Folder, Alias Folder, and Open Folder Icon colors will display the overlay color selector sheet. You can choose between color or gray scale within the sheet.
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Other Effects:
Separator: The overall width of item separators. Three choices are available including Slim, Medium, or Wide.

Draw: Separators can be toggled to draw a line or just leave a blank space. If you turn off drawing of the separator, the medium and wide separator widths are more suitable.

Item Spacing: Add extra space between items on the Station panels. The spacing value can range from 0 to 128 points.

Open Folder Indicator: You can choose to overlay the open icon image on the folder or color the folder with an overlay color. To set the overlay color, choose a color through the "Open Folder Color" preference.

Transparency: Controls Station's background transparency. This is transparency with no blurring.

Use system translucency: Use the macOS transparency effect. Note, this is not true transparency but translucency like looking through a frosted glass effect. If you have the system preference "Accessibility > Display > Reduce transparency" turned on, this will render this preference inert.

Favorites Icon Size: Change the icon size for items in the favorites window.
Combining Effects:

You can combine the background color, transparency, and system translucency to achieve different effects. For example, you can choose a custom color and turn on transparency to about 20% and combine it with the system translucency to give a different hue to the system translucency. If "Use system translucency" is on and "Transparency" is off, it will render the "Background Color" inert and Station will deactivate this preference.

Behavior Preferences

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Automatically hide and show Station: Hides Station until you move the mouse to the edge of the screen. Note, if you have two or more launch panels open, Station will not hide until only the root level panel is showing by itself, otherwise you would have a difficult time working with the launch panels.

Center new panels on the folder item:
When you click on a folder item in Station to open a new panel, this option will center the panel over the folder you clicked on.

Collapse open panels on launch:
Collapse all open launch folders down to the root level after an item is launched.

Spring loaded folders when dragging:
When you drag items over a folder icon and hover for a short period of time, the folder will automatically open.

Auto open Station folders: When you move the mouse over a Station folder, the folder will automatically open with no other interaction. This allows you to more quickly navigate the panel hierarchy.

Show item names:
Show the name of the item under the icon.

Show name over icon:
This preference allows you to control when popover names are shown. You have three choices including, "Always," "When Truncated," and "Never." The "When Truncated" option is useful when you show the item name under the icon and it is truncated. The "Station" item will always be shown no matter the setting chosen here.

Finder Folders Default Action:
Doing a primary click on a Finder folder will do one of the the following, open the Finder folder or show the contents of the folder as a list view.

Close Favorites window on launch:
After clicking on an icon in the favorites window, the window is closed.

Keyboard Preferences

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Keyboard navigation: This is the key combination to activate keyboard navigation.

Show Favorites: Show the favorites window.

Auto hide switch: Toggle the "Automatically hide and show Station" preference.

Collapse All Panels: Collapse all the open Station panels.

Previous panel set: Switch to the previous panel set.

Next panel set: Switch to the next panel set.

Miscellaneous

The following preference features can be accessed through the "Station > Preferences" menu.

Exporting/Importing:

Preferences can be exported and imported to another machine. This is useful for setting up a new machine or syncing existing machines. Note, the export functionality only works between Station applications that have the same version number.

Reseting Preferences:

Preferences can also be reset to default values.
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