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Ricardo Amaral edited this page Feb 22, 2015 · 5 revisions

Welcome to the SlackUI wiki!

The current SlackUI version is really easy to use and does not yet require a lengthy usage guide. However, a few things might not be so straightforward and this wiki will try to fill that gap for you.

System Menu

A few "hidden" settings can normally be found under the main window's system menu. The one you access with a right-click over the application icon at the top-left corner of the main window.

Current actions available are:

  • Reload Team Site - Forces a full page refresh to the active team site.
  • Show DevTools… - Opens a dialog with Chrome debugging tools.

Settings

One thing that's missing from the application is a graphical interface to change application-wide preferences. Unfortunately for now, these will need to be changed by hand.

When SlackUI is running, open the notification icon context menu and select Settings.... This will open an Explorer window inside the application's AppData folder; where the settings, cache and log files are stored.

In that folder one will find the settings.xml file which holds every configurable application setting. If you don't see the file, completely exit the application (by selecting Exit in the notification icon context menu) and the file will be created with the default settings.

To change any setting, open the settings.xml file with your text editor of choice and change the values accordingly. Please exit the application completely, otherwise your changes will be overwritten.

Read more below about all the available settings.

General

  • InitialTeamToLoad - The team domain to load when the application is executed.
  • StartWithWindows - Set to True to run the application on Windows startup, or False to run it manually. After changing this option, run the application once manually to write the changes to the Windows registry.

Appearance

  • WhiteNotificationIcon - Set to True to use a white native looking notification icon, or False for a more colourful one.

User Interface

  • ShowOnStartup - Set to True to display the main application window when the application is executed, or False to keep it hidden.
  • ShowWithSingleClick - Set to True to display the main application window with a single click in the notification icon, or False to display only with a double click.

Internal

Any of these settings are only to be used internally to control the application behavior and state. There should be no need to manually modify the settings.xml for these.

Wrapper Form

Please avoid changing any of these by manually modifying the settings.xml file. Whenever the main application window changes location, size or state, these will be automatically and immediately saved.

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