To modify BeebEF options, select 'Edit|Options' from the main menu or pres the 'Edit options' button on the toolbar (the button with the green light).
The following window then appears.
The window contains the following sections.
Picture files are used to display a picture of a running program in the main BeebEF window. A picture file should always have the same path and file name as its associated disk image, bar its extension, which should be '.jpg'. (Only JPEG files are accepted.) So, for example, if a disk image name is 'C:\BBC\Software\Acornsoft\Snapper.ssd', the picture file name should be 'C:\BBC\Software\Acornsoft\Snapper.jpg'
Once the option 'copy picture file' is set, the source picture file name has to be specified. This can be done by clicking the 'browse' button (the button with the dots) and selecting or typing a file name.
If the option is set, every time an emulator is quit, BeebEF copies the source picture file to the picture file associated with the disk image that was run in the emulator. For example, assume that the file 'C:\TEMP\PIC.JPG' has been specified as the source file. After running an emulator with the disk image 'C:\BBC\Software\Acornsoft\Snapper.ssd', the file 'C:\TEMP\PIC.JPG' is copied to the file 'C:\BBC\Software\Acornsoft\Snapper.jpg'.
This option is very useful to easily create large amounts of picture files in conjunction with a screen capture program. Such a program can capture the screen (or, in our case, the contents of an emulator window) at the press of a button and then save it to a picture file.
I used the screen capture program HyperSnap-DX to create picture files after I had initially set up BeebEF with about 200 BBC programs. I set up HyperSnap-DX to save the contents of the window of the emulator BeebEm every time I pressed CTRL-SHIFT-C to the file 'C:\TEMP\PIC.JPG'. I then set up BeebEF as described above. Then I ran the first BBC program in BeebEm, pressed CTRL-SHIFT-C, and quit the emulator. I did the same for the second BBC program, etc. All picture files were automatically created correctly.
It is possible to drop disk or rom images on
the main BeebEF window, after which they are run with the selected
emulator. This section contains fields that control what happens when a
disk/rom image is dropped.