Old ToonTalk Installation Customizations

ADVANCED USERS ONLY.

These options are either for older versions of ToonTalk or are no longer recommended. The current options are documented here.

You may edit the toontalk.ini file to customize ToonTalk. Beginning with version 2.52 and Beta 35 you'll find it in the ToonTalk subdirectory of "My Documents". Earlier versions of ToonTalk stored it in your Windows directory. You can find out which version of ToonTalk you have by looking at the opening screen. Additional options are available for making a custom installation disk.

• AutoDemoMaxIdle. Value is number of seconds to wait before restarting demos when running -autodemo 1 or 2.
• GeneralTextToSpeechEngine. If its value is 1, then ToonTalk assumes that the text-to-speech engine can speak any utterance. With the built-in engine for Marty if you set this to 1, you'll hear Marty spelling many words he doesn't know how to say.
• ClippingDir. If ClippingDir=<a directory name> is set in the Directories section of the toontalk.ini file then when ToonTalk puts something on the clipboard it also puts a copy in a file in ClippingDir with the users name (or if a city was put on the clipboard the users name followed by "_city"). This directory can be the desktop or a networked directory to simplify sharing. Or it can be set to "a:" to make it easier to give someone a floppy with a copy of clipboard encoding.
• FileSearchPath. When ToonTalk is looking for a file (e.g. a user's BMP file for a picture or WAV file for a sound), it looks in the Users subdirectory of ToonTalk (unless overridden by UserFiles). If it can't find a file there, it will search the directories listed in the FileSearchPath. FileSearchPath is a list of directories separated by commas. Each directory can be a full file path (e.g. c:\toontalk\pictures), a URL (e.g. http://www.toontalk.com/temp), or a relative path where * stands for the Users\<user name> directory so for a user named Sue with ToonTalk installed in the default location will be c:\program files\animated programs\toontalk\users\sue. For example, "*\..\..\extra_sounds" specifies a user defined directory named "extra_sounds" that is a direct subdirectory of the main ToonTalk directory.
• SecondaryFileSearchPath. This has the same meaning as the FileSearchPath but these directories are searched only if the directories specified by the FileSearchPath fail to contain the required files. This is particularly useful for local INI files. This entry is operational in Beta 26 or version 2.34 or later.
• URLCacheDir. If URLCacheDir=<a directory name> in the Directories section of the toontalk.ini file, then when URLs are read they are cached in the specified directory. Used in conjunction with FileSearchPath, you can post media needed by games or other ToonTalk applications on the web and they are copied to a the URLCacheDir as needed. If this isn't set then the system Internet file cache is used. This has the advantage and disadvantage that files are automatically deleted when old and space is needed. Requires Beta 23 or version 2.09 or later.
• MissingBuiltinPictureFileExtension. If this is set in the FileExtensions section of toontalk.ini then files with this extension will be used if BackgroundsDir or BuiltinPictureDir is set. Typical values are GIF, PNG, or JPG. Requires Beta 33 or 2.40 or later.
• MissingBuiltinPictureFileExtensionIf8Bit. If this is set in the FileExtensions section of toontalk.ini and you are running ToonTalk with 256 colors then files with this extension will be used if BuiltinPictureDirIf8Bit, BuiltinPictureDir, or BackgroundsDir is set. Typical values are GIF, PNG, or JPG. Requires Beta 35 or 2.52 or later.