Changing the Look and Feel
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MotiveWave™ provides several options for changing the look and feel of the window decorations, docking framework, table colors and chart colors. Use the Preferences dialog to change these attributes (as well as many others). This dialog can be opened by pressing the Preferences button at bottom right of the console window or by choosing Configure -> Preferences from the top menu bar.
If you would like to modify the preferences for the docking framework, click on the General tab then on the Dock sub tab. Several options are available from this panel (see below):
The Themes tab provides several options for changing the look and feel of the window decorations as well as the colors for the chart, tables and buy/sell boxes. Custom Chart and Bar themes can be defined under the corresponding tabs of this section:
The following screen shot shows an example of some theme changes:
Fonts and icon sizes can be changed from the Fonts panel. Select the General Font/Icon Size option to adjust the overall size of the icons and fonts for the windows and dialogs. This option can be particularly useful on a high resolution screen.
Fonts can also be adjusted for the charts on the Chart Fonts tab:
