Configuring your application

The settings for MTG Companion can be changed by accessing the Configuration menu on the sidebar. There are three different tabs for configuring various setting in the application.

Plugins

Plugins are used to add and control functionality for many parts of MTG Companion. The various plugins can be enabled, disabled and configured in this tab.

Check the Plugins page for information on each type of plugin.

Configuration

The Configuration Tab holds various global settings for the application

Configuration

• Main Collection: Sets the default collection to be used when importing items to Stock.
• Don't show alert with price < than: Set the price threshold for alerts.
• Clean Cache: Allows you to clean the image cache. Select the appropriate checkboxes and click the Clean button to delete the appropriate cache. Depending on the selections this could take some time.
• Default Stock button: Set what the default values will be for newly imported stock items such as quantity, condition, and language. see define default stock item
• Create config backup file: Allows you to export or import a copy to the MTG Companion config file.
• Update to Pre-Release: Allows MTG Companion to notify you if a new pre-release builds exist. Otherwise, only notification for stable release.
• Technical Service logging : will enable data log process backup. May the apps be more slower. See Technicals informations

GUI

• GUI Language: Sets the language for the MTG Companion GUI.
• Language: Sets the preferred card's language
• Look: Change the skin for MTG Companion.
• Thumbnail Dimension: Change the default size of the card thumbnails.
• Show Object panel (for dev): Enables the object tab. Allows viewing the data structures of cards for development.
• Show Tooltip: Enables the "Tip of the Day" message on startup.
• Tab's Position: Sets the location of the main navigation tabs.
• Font: Change the font type and size for the interface.
• Enable Autocompletion: Enables autocomplete in search. Requires and Index plugin.
• Disable Chrome rendering : Disable the native Chrome for HTML Rendering of MTGCompanion
• Keys configuration: Allows configuration of hotkeys for various plugins and screens.

Modules

Enables or disable various modules for the application. These modules show up in the main navigation tabs.

Accounts

Add accounts for various connections into MTG Companion. See Configuring external accounts access

Databases

• Backup dao to file: Backs up the database to another Dao.
• Duplicate to: Copy your current database to the selected database type.
• Location: The file path to your current database
• Size: The current size of your database file
• Indexation: date of last index. You can use the Reindexation button to reindex your database.

Networks

• Answer or not on online's user query.
• Connect to lastest SERVER activeMQ server at startup

Site

• Export the selected website front end to external directory. Used if you want to host your front end on a external server. See Export front end for more details.

Game

• Name: Set the player name for the game module
• Avatar: Set the avatar image for the game module

Currency

• Enabled: Enables the CurrencyLayer API for currency conversions.
• Currency: Set your preferred currency.
• CurrencyLayer API Code: Your CurrencyLayer API Key. You will need to sign up for an API key at https://currencylayer.com
• Update Currency: Shows the last date your currency info was updated from CurrencyLayer. The Update Currency button will update the currency information. There is a limit to the number of API pulls you can do from CurrencyLayer.

Logs

• Directory : Default directory for collection static export.
• Web_Server_ui : Export the HTML/JS/CSS package of embedded Web server to a deployable package (in ex if you have an external hosting service)

Active Servers

This tab contains a list of servers and their status. You can start and stop servers from this screen by pressing the button next to it. Error information will show in the box next to the server. If the server is greyed out you will need to activate the module for the server in the Plugins -> Servers tab.

Check the Servers page for more information on server.