8.12. Advanced Options

mAirList allows you to set a number of advanced options manually in the configuration file mAirList.ini, which you can open with your favorite text editor (e.g., Windows Notepad).

8.12.1. Preferred Default Directories

You can specify the default directories for the various “open file” dialogs by adding the following section to your mAirList.ini:

[DefaultDirectories]
AddDirectoryBrowser=M:\music
AddDirectoryTreeBrowser=M:\music
AddPlaylistBrowser=C:\playlists
OpenPlaylist=C:\playlists
AppendPlaylist=C:\playlists
RunScript=c:\scripts
InsertFiles=M:\music
SavePlaylist=C:\playlists
SchedulerSelectScript=c:\scripts
SchedulerSelectFile=M:\music
SchedulerSelectPlaylist=C:\playlists
SchedulerLoadList=C:\events
SchedulerSaveList=C:\events
CartwallLoad=C:\cartsets
CartwallSave=C:\cartsets
      

A default value for a specific dialog can be disabled by deleting its entry from mAirList.ini.

8.12.2. Customizing the Toolbars

If you are running a customized layout (created with layout.ini, you might want to change the way the two toolbars (above the playlists, and above the browsers) look. This can be done by adding the sections [Toolbar] and/or [BrowserToolbar] to your mAirList.ini file and setting one or more of the following parameters.

First, you can choose whether the text below the icons should be displayed (Captions, default on). You can also set the toolbar into “list” mode, in which smaller icons are used, and the captions (if enabled) are displayed at each icons's right hand side, rather than below the icon (List, default off). Finally, the parameter AutoSize (default off) specifies whether each button should shrink to its minimum required space. This should be set to on when having List mode enabled or Captions disabled.

Here's an example for the main toolbar, with small icons and no captions:

[Toolbar]
List=on
Captions=off
AutoSize=on
      

Additionally, you can selectively hide each single button in the toolbar. For the main toolbar, this is done with the following settings (the Separator entries refer to the vertical separator lines in the toolbar):

ShowSeparator0=off
ShowNew=off
ShowOpen=off
ShowSave=off
ShowSeparator1=off
ShowInsert=off
ShowProperties=off
ShowDelete=off
ShowSeparator2=off
ShowEvents=off
ShowCartwall=off
ShowSeparator3=off
ShowAbout=off
      

The respective values for the browser toolbar are:

ShowAdd=off
ShowRefresh=off
ShowClose=off