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General Options

General

  • Status Message Persistence Time - Set how long status messages should persist on the status bar.
  • Show Tooltips - When checked, Tooltips will appear when you mouse-over a control button.

Fonts

Settings Fonts is especially useful when scaling the app size for Touchscreen Tablets.

  • Menu font - The Menu font sets the font size for the menus across the top of the app.
  • Controls font - The Controls font sets the font size for the text related controls of the app (ie. list boxes, numeric entry box, elapsed time readout etc).
  • Set Both Fonts to - Both of the above fonts are set to the same font. Choose the font via dialog.

User Interface

Scale Factor will increase the base size of a control. It is expressed as a decimal percent. (ex scale=2.0 is 2X base size, 200% scaling). Scale Factor is useful when scaling the app size for Touchscreen Tablets.

  • Controls/Buttons Scale Factor - Applied to UI buttons and numeric entry controls.
  • Listboxes Width Scale Factor - Applied to the width of Cue and Sequences listboxes.
  • Listboxes Height Scale Factor - Applied to the height of Cue and Sequences listboxes.
  • Set All Scale Factors to - This button sets all the above Scale Factors to the same specified value.
Figure 1.  General Options
Figure 1. General Options