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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
Satellite Meters and Installation Equipment
Using the "138MHz-4.4GHz USB SMA Source/Signal Generator/Simple Spectrum Analyzer" for TV/CATV/SAT
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<blockquote data-quote="vma" data-source="post: 997957" data-attributes="member: 256592"><p>The GUI has been a constant struggle, because I wanted to dedicate so much screen space for the spectrum itself (1000x500 + 1000x100).</p><p></p><p>There seem to be users using the software for very different things: some like to use it for satellite stuff (integer MHz is OK), others i.e. for amateur radio applications or filter testing (need KHz resolution). I do my best to please you all, but I reached the limit regarding screen area!</p><p></p><p>The easiest would really be to assume everyone has a FullHD screen (1920x1080) and then I could increase the size of the window and with that the size of the font on all controls. This is how the software started: I just used my screen resolution and never thought that people might end up using the software and on top of that, it didn't even occur to me that people might use PC's with less screen resolution! I am fortunate to have a company laptop with FullHD, my home PC is FullHD (three screens, actually) and even my Windows tablet has 2560x1600 resolution. But due to many requests I settled with 1280x780 resolution, the missing 20 vertical pixel lines being reserved for the taskbar. So no change to happen here.</p><p></p><p>I did recently decrease the font size inside the graphics area (frequency and dB values), to compensate for the extra 3 decimal digits - otherwise the end of the first frequency value would bump into the start of the next one. I didn't exepect anyone to notice!</p><p></p><p>What I could do is to increase the font size of the grid related text, IF you deselect the now default setting of displaying frequencies with 3 decimal places. I could add that setting to the registry, so it gets stored and retrieved upon start.</p><p></p><p>Another thing I could do is to add a "tool tip" function, where hovering the mouse over a relevant control would show its contents in an info-window with bigger text. Not perfect, but would allow easy reading.</p><p></p><p>Would that help?</p><p></p><p>Regards,</p><p>Vitor</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vma, post: 997957, member: 256592"] The GUI has been a constant struggle, because I wanted to dedicate so much screen space for the spectrum itself (1000x500 + 1000x100). There seem to be users using the software for very different things: some like to use it for satellite stuff (integer MHz is OK), others i.e. for amateur radio applications or filter testing (need KHz resolution). I do my best to please you all, but I reached the limit regarding screen area! The easiest would really be to assume everyone has a FullHD screen (1920x1080) and then I could increase the size of the window and with that the size of the font on all controls. This is how the software started: I just used my screen resolution and never thought that people might end up using the software and on top of that, it didn't even occur to me that people might use PC's with less screen resolution! I am fortunate to have a company laptop with FullHD, my home PC is FullHD (three screens, actually) and even my Windows tablet has 2560x1600 resolution. But due to many requests I settled with 1280x780 resolution, the missing 20 vertical pixel lines being reserved for the taskbar. So no change to happen here. I did recently decrease the font size inside the graphics area (frequency and dB values), to compensate for the extra 3 decimal digits - otherwise the end of the first frequency value would bump into the start of the next one. I didn't exepect anyone to notice! What I could do is to increase the font size of the grid related text, IF you deselect the now default setting of displaying frequencies with 3 decimal places. I could add that setting to the registry, so it gets stored and retrieved upon start. Another thing I could do is to add a "tool tip" function, where hovering the mouse over a relevant control would show its contents in an info-window with bigger text. Not perfect, but would allow easy reading. Would that help? Regards, Vitor [/QUOTE]
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