How to start and operate Azhagi?

Click on Azhagi's shortcut icon in the Desktop. [See screenshot below to know how the icon will look like. Note that Azhagi's shortcut icon will be available in StartMenu and Quicklaunch bar also. You can avail them too. By mistake, do not click on Azhagi's Installation/Setup File again. This will only start reinstalling Azhagi].

Azhagi application will get started and Azhagi's operating icon (a minimised image of the snapshot you see above) will appear in the right bottom of your desktop/computer screen, most often next to the date/time indicator. You can left-click (just a single click; not double-click) on that icon to show/hide Azhagi's main editing screen. You can right-click on that icon to see a menu of options/info pop up. See screenshot below for better understanding.

On Azhagi's opening screen, please click the banner (as you see in the screenshot below). After clicking the same, step-by-step instructions will get displayed with clear-cut screenshots. Read them just once, understand the same and thereafter you can just press 'F10' and start transliterating/typing in Tamil in ANY application like MS-Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PageMaker, Photoshop, Internet Explorer (Gmail, Yahoo! Chat, Google Search, Blogs, etc.), Outlook Express etc. etc.

Click on the button captioned 'Unicode Editor' (as you seen in the snapshot below) and you can start typing in Unicode. For further details on this Unicode editor and it's operations, please click here or visit http://azhagi.com/uniss.html or http://azhagi.com/unieditor.html

Type in the top screen (English Text area) of Azhagi to effect Transparent / DualScreen (English text will be "visible") Transliteration

Keep the top screen empty and type in the bottom screen (Tamil Text area) to effect NonTransparent / SingleScreen (English text "will not be visible") Transliteration

To make Azhagi appear as one single screen for the above 'Single Screen' Transliteration, either:

b) Click on the top menu 'Preferences'. Then, Click on 'Screen Appearance' and choose 'Tamil Text Area alone will be visible'.
or

c) Right click (NOT left-click) on Azhagi's operating icon (in the right bottom of your screen) and move to 'Transliteration mode' to choose 'NonTransparent'.

b) Click on the top menu 'Preferences'. Then, Click on 'Screen Appearance' and choose 'English Text Area and TTA alone will be visible'.

c) Right click (NOT left-click) on Azhagi's operating icon (in the right bottom of your screen) and move to 'Transliteration mode' to choose 'Transparent'.