Candy Database · Documentation
The interface The tab has a top bar, a sidebar and the page. Top bar
ItemWhat it does
Database menuRefresh, Open Library Folder and Settings.
View menuMove the sidebar, show or hide the sidebar, the page header and the page footer, change the text size.
About menuPages about the database itself, such as its change log or credits. Only there when the database has some. Ctrl+click opens one in the other page.
Settings buttonOpens the settings window.
Sidebar From top to bottom:
  1. The search box.
  2. The database drop-down.
  3. The version drop-down.
  4. The language drop-down.
  5. The list of pages, in categories. Click a page to read it, and a category's arrow to fold or unfold it. Some categories are pages too: clicking one opens it. Ctrl+click a page to open it in a second page (see Two pages below).
The sidebar is on the left by default. Put it on the right in View > Sidebar on the Right, or in the settings' Layout tab. View > Show Sidebar hides it. Page The page is the large area. Its bar has Back and Forward, to step through the pages you have read in it. It can have a header above the text and a footer below it, and a background color or image behind them. You can select and copy text with the mouse. Links are underlined and clickable. Two pages Ctrl+click a page in the list, or a link in a page (Cmd+click on macOS), to open it beside the one you are reading. The page area splits in two, with the second page on the right; the settings' Layout tab can put it on the left, above or below instead. Drag the line between them to share the room differently.
  • Each page has its own bar, with its own Back and Forward, and an X that closes it. The X only shows while two pages are open.
  • A plain click in the list always opens the page in the main page, and Ctrl+click in the second page. Closing the main page makes the second page the main one.
  • Ctrl+click on a link opens it in the other page: from the main page in the second page, and from the second page in the main page.
  • The list marks both pages. With Mark the second page in a color of its own (in the settings' Layout tab), the second page's is marked in another color, also shown at the left of its bar, to tell them apart.
  • Changing the database, version or language goes back to one page.
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