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The Game menu has 3 items: New, Get data in a new language and Quit.
New brings you a new game, i.e. a new word to guess, in the same level you already are. Get data in a new language will display the Get New Stuff dialog to allow you to download data in a new language. Quit quits the game by closing the main window and writing the actual settings in the configuration file.
The Languages menu has one or two languages as default: English and your kde language if available (if your KDE language is one of the following eighteen: Czech, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese, Spanish , Slovenian, Serbian Latin, Serbian Cyrillic, Swedish and Tajik and if you have the corresponding i18n package installed then it will be the default. After your first game, the language you set up the last time you used KHangMan is restored.
The Settings menu allows you to configure KHangMan easily. First, Toolbars and Show Status bar give you the possibility to hide/show the Toolbars and Status bar.
There are two toolbars: the main one which is the one on top with the buttons and combo boxes and the Characters toolbar which, when it is shown, is on the bottom. This toolbar has buttons with the special characters for each language: accented letters and other special characters. This allows users to easily play in another language without having to configure a new keyboard layout. You click on a special letter and it is displayed as the letter to try. Pressing Enter will make the program see if the letter is present in the word or not. The toolbar can be hidden if you don't want it. This is saved in the configuration file so if the toolbar is hidden, it will be hidden next time you run KHangMan.
It is of course possible to move the toolbars around. Put the mouse cursor on the small handle on the left of the toolbar, press the left mouse button and drag the toolbar to position it on the screen where you want it. If you point the mouse on one of the toolbars and press the right mouse button, a context menu appears to let you choose different options for the toolbar.
Configure Shortcuts... is a standard KDE setting that allows you to choose different shortcut keys for different actions. For example, Ctrl+Q is the standard shortcut for Quit.
Configure Toolbars... is also a standard KDE menu item that allows you to add or suppress items from the toolbar. When Full-Screen Mode is checked, it brings you in full-screen mode, with only the toolbar on top and KHangMan occupies the whole screen. On the main toolbar, the icon Back to Normal Size allows you to come back from full-screen mode to the window size you had before.
Here you have KHangMan with the Blue theme, transparent hangman pictures, Catalan language and level Easy. The Characters toolbar is shown here.
The level is chosen with a combo box and you have easy, medium, animals and hard. Easy is related to common objects a child aged six or seven knows. Medium regards nouns a bit more challenging, hard is quite difficult and animals is only animals nouns.
All words are nouns. No verbs, no adjectives. The chosen level is then displayed on the status bar.
Only letters are allowed to be typed in the field.
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