Presentation

Clic is an open programme which allows the carrying out of various educational activities: puzzles, associations, word searches, crosswords, text activities and other types which we will discover over the duration of the modules of this course.

Before starting the practice exercises you will need to make some changes to the default settings in Clic:

  • Start up Clic and go to the Options - Global options menu

  • Notice the area where it says Graph programme. By default it says PBRUSH.EXE, which is the basic drawing programme in Windows. Paintbrush only lets you work with BMP files and we will also be using GIF images in this course. So we will have to change the setting to Paint Shop Pro (or any other programme capable of editing GIF files).

  • Click on the Search... button in this area and find the PSP.EXE file, which is normally in the C:\PROGRA~1\PAINTS~1 folder, which is the equivalent of "C:\Program Files\Paint Shop Pro" (Clic is a 16-bit programme and cannot 'see' the folders and files with the long names as in Windows 95, that is why the equivalent expressions, abbreviated to 8 characters must always be used).

  • Click OK and, when Clic asks, say Yes you want to keep the changes made.