File Viewer Preferences

You can access the File Viewer Preferences by selecting "Preferences..." from the "Edit" menu, and then clicking on the "File Viewer" tab.

The options on this screen control the operation of the file viewer. In most cases they also alter the way files are extracted when "Convert to non-Apple II formats" is enabled.

Converters

Use these checkboxes to enable or disable conversion of specific formats. The converters are described in more detail under File Format Converters.

If you select "Relax type-checking on graphics", CiderPress will be a little more aggressive when deciding if a file is a graphic image or not. For example, not all hi-res and double-hi-res graphics have reliable file types, so any binary file that looks to be about the right size is displayed as a graphic.

Conversion Options

Most of these are described on the File Format Converters page.

If "Scroll horizontally instead of wrapping words" is set, the file viewer will add a horizontal scroll bar, and lines of text will not wrap when they reach the right edge of the viewer.

"Highlight hex dump columns" puts alternating 4-byte columns in bold for easier reading. This is only done for small files, because loading the hex dump with Rich Text Format notations is considerably slower.

"Disassemble BRK/COP as a single-byte instructions" affects IIgs monitor disassembly output.

File Viewer Size Limit

This is the size of the largest file that the file viewer will open. Large files may place a strain on Windows systems with limited memory, and in many cases there's little value in examining truly huge files with the file viewer. The upper limit can be set in 1K increments from 1K to 32MB (32768K).