Settings

Settings


The Settings dialog box is found from the main menu, at Settings - General Settings.



General



Language

Select the language used for the program's GUI. A restart is needed. The latest Language Pack can be found here.

Enable hints

Enable the little yellow tooltips that explain things when the mouse cursor moves over something.

Recently used file list size

How many previous files are shown in the file open history list.

Undo levels

How many times Undo works.

Compress undo buffer

Undo buffer compression slows down the program a little but uses less memory when editing.

User interface theme

Changes the color of the toolbars, splitters, tabs etc.

Associate supported files with Moyo Go Studio

Associates SGF, GIB, PRB, MGT, GO, UGF, UGI, NGF files with MoyoGo so that MoyoGo opens them when double-clicked.



Annotation


Click on the small triangle next to the colored button to select the annotation color.



SGF Annotation

The characters a..z and all other user-edited annotation like territory, highlighting etc.

Example Patterns

The statistical move urgency pattern examples from the 17,000,000 pattern database.

Variations (pattern search)

The variations found in a pattern search (pattern drawn after Ctrl+Shift, searched with Ctrl+Q)

Variations (game tree)

The next variations in a in a game tree (like Kogo's Joseki Dictionary) that are not annotated by the user.

Fuseki

Found Fuseki variations in the Fuseki database.

Last Move

The previous move. Very useful is the option to hide the circle KGS puts in their game records.

Next Move

The next move.



Board



Grid lines


Thick lines


Hoshi points


Stone numbering


Board index

The board index can be set to Western, Japanese or removed alltogether.

Skin


Board brightness


Clam line darkness

Clamshell stones are simulated, approximately 50% have their lines facing upwards.

Stone shadow


Stone brightness


Stone thickness


Human hand cursor when playing against the computer

When it is the user's turn when playing against GNU Go, the mouse cursor becomes a large human hand.

Hand transparency




Sound



Sound


Stereo

When stones are placed on the right side of the board, the sound comes from the right side as well.

Reverse left & right

For when the speakers are wired wrongly.

Volume


Individual stone sounds (instead of random sounds)

The stone sounds can be tried and white and black given their own, fixed sounds insead of random stone sounds.

Enable audio recording

Allows audio recording on Go positions.

Audio recording quality

Audio quality: The better, the larger the SGF file will become.



Databases




The size of the database (number of games) is shown under "Created" in the third column.


Change sort order of selected database in results

Select a database by clicking it, then click an arrow to move it up or down to change the sort order of that database in the result-list of games (visible when doing an example-pattern search with Ctrl+Alt, etc.)

Fuseki

Enable Fuseki for the database.

Examples

Enable Examples (statistical move urgency example patterns) for the database.

Search

Enable free-defined pattern search for the database. ("Kombilo"-type search).



Editor



Plain text (small SGF files)

Recommended default. Comments are entered and displayed in ordinary, plain text. Smallest files.

Rich text (larger SGF files)

Text can contain fonts, colors, text attributes and images. 100% compatible with ordinary SGF but only MoyoGo can display the colors, bold, underline, italic, text justification, tables and images.



Patterns


This tab pertains to the Statistical Move Urgency Example Pattern Expert System.

This system is the result of two years of research & development and months of 24/7 number crunching, resuting in a database of almost 17 million patterns.



Maximum number of shown pattern annotations


Pattern perimeter (as green outline)


Database games containing the same pattern


Hint with pattern preference


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