Interface

General interface settings

Configure Open Recent:

Most document-based applications have an "Open Recent" item in the File menu. This menu can be configured system-wide, allowing you to enable and disable the menu as well as set the number of recent documents to show.

Display sheets:

A sheet is a dialog which is attached to a window, an example is the Save dialogs which slides out from the top of the window. Cocktail allows you to configure the speed of this animation.

When application crash:

Mac OS X can be set to one of the following three different behaviors for when an application crashes:

By default Mac OS X displays the "Unexpectedly Quit" dialog.

Disable spelling correction:

OS X Lion comes with a built in spellchecker and autocorrection system, similar to iOS, which Cocktail can disable.

Disable Character Picker:

In Lion Apple introduced an iOS-style Character Picker to allow easier access to non-standard characters. You can access the character picker by pressing and holding an alphabetic key on your keyboard, however the Picker overrides the keyboard's repeat functionality. By activating this option in Cocktail you disable the Character Picker and restore the repeat function.

Disable the New Window animation:

This disables the zooming animation shown when a new window is displayed on the screen.

Use expanded Save dialogs by default

By default Save dialogs are displayed in collapsed mode. By clicking the triangle button you can expand the dialogs to enable some advanced settings. Every application remembers if you have expanded the dialog and will present the dialog in the same mode you left it in. This setting enables the expanded mode by default. From now on, every app will use the large Save dialogs by default - with the exception of any program where you might have used the Save dialogs and quit with it in the small state; you'll have to set those manually.

Do not allow Help Viewer window to stay on top

Makes Help Viewer window behave like a normal window in Mac OS X by preventing it from floating on top of other applications.

Screenshot file format:

The compressed image file format PNG is the default screenshot format. Mac OS X can use a number of different file formats. One can also set a where you want the screenshots to be saved. The following image file formats is available: