# $Id: CUSTOMIZE_SMM,v 1.2 2001/08/19 12:25:42 issever Exp $

CUSTOMIZE_SMM:
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0) Index
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1) SMM++ startup takes too long


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1) SMM++ startup takes too long
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Much startup time is spend into loading of images. With 
V4.0 many background and stuff images have been
added. Not all of them may be useful to you and the
most natural approach would be not to load those images 
you never are going to use.

All SMM++ images are in the subdirectory 'images'. The
subdirectory 'images' contains only more
subdirectories:

images/bg_bw_below
images/bg_bw_ontop
images/bg_color_below
images/bg_color_ontop
images/cursor
images/stuff
images/stuff_XL
images/system

!!! Dont delete any of these directories itself!


   type-directories
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Only these directories are of interest now:

images/bg_bw_below
images/bg_bw_ontop
images/bg_color_below
images/bg_color_ontop
images/stuff
images/stuff_XL

You can recognize the 'type' (the bg or stuff selector
is displaying it) of the images: bg_bw_below,
bg_color_below, bg_bw_ontop, bg_color_ontop, stuff,
stuff_XL. These directories I will call
type-directories.

   category-directories
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The type-directories contain again more subdirectories:
you will again recognize that the directory names as
the categories names of the images. These directories I
will call category-directories

   images (name)
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Finally within the category-directories you will find
the image files. The filenames correspond to the name
part of the image. All files are gif files and have the 
extension .gif.

1.1) Delete unneeded images
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You can delete any category-directory or image file,
you dont intend to use anymore and didnt have used up
to now! It absolutely doesnt matter.

If you later on decide to use them again, just download 
a new version of SMM.

!!! TWO EXEPTIONS
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You may delete whatever you want, except the default
BG- and stuff-image that SMM uses at startup! Yuo may
also not delete its category directory:

type-dir    | categ.-dir | name
------------+------------+-------
bg_bw_ontop | misc       | def
stuff       | misc       | stuff

Dont hesitate to send an email, if you encounter any
problems. I need to know the problems in order to solve 
them!



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