Changing a theme

Four Winds supports changing of the visual and aural environment of the game by use of "themes" (available only in a registered version of the game). In addition of graphical elements (game board, tiles, dialog boxes, buttons, cursors, etc.) a theme can also include the sound effects and background music designed to support the visual outlook of a theme. Users can create their own themes easily by using Four Winds Theme Editor. This utility can be downloaded free of charge from Four Winds web site.

To change a theme (graphics and sound effects) of the game:

Choose Preferences on the File menu.
Choose Themes under the User Interface section in the category tree of the Preferences dialog box.
Open the Themes drop-down list and choose the desired theme. You can see the preview of the graphics on the right of the list.

Note: The theme plug-ins (.dll files) and external 256-color themes that come with Four Winds (or that can be downloaded from the Four Winds web site) work well in all color modes supporting at least 256 colors. User-defined themes, on the other hand, are normally 24-bit bitmaps and require that the current screen mode supports at least 16-bit colors (High Color mode), though the actual bitmaps of user-defined themes can have any color depth. For more information on user-defined themes, see the help topic How to create user-defined themes.