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The “Application Look” Dialog Box
You can choose between a wide variety of skins, themes, colors and fonts. Experiment with this until you obtain your favorite look, or if you get bored with a given look, change it on occasion for variety.
If you prefer the classic old way that the software looked with Windows XP, you can get back to that appearance by choosing the Windows XP selection. Also, please note that not all skins and themes support variable color schemes or font sizes. The “Display” preference for showing the dialog color schemes (found under the Edit\Preferences\Display tab) is by default left on when you enable a theme. Users may want to turn these off to see the full effect of the display theme that they have chosen.
Enabling or Disabling Toolbars in DCArt10/DC Forensics10
The following toolbars may be turned on or off by the user by simply checking or un-checking them from the View menu item. The Diamond Cut Toolbars are both movable and dock-able.
Customizing Your Toolbar(s)
One of the Customize Dialog Boxes
You can custom configure your toolbars using the following technique:
1. Click the Toolbars Tab.
2. Click Customize.
4. Click Toolbars.
5. Click New.
6. Add name of new Toolbar.
7. Click “ok”.
8. Click on Commands Tab.
9. Select Tools from menu options.
10. Drag and Drop the Command from the Right window onto the Toolbar.
11. Close customize when you have your toolbar set up as you want it.
12. Reposition or Dock the toolbar depending on your needs.
Toolbars and Customize Windows will bring up this Dialog Box
Channel Toolbar
Just beneath the filter and effects toolbar and towards the left of the display can be found the Channel Selector Toolbar. This allows you to choose which channels are to be operated on by the system. Your choices are as follows:
1. L/R (Both channels)
2. L (Left channel only)
3. R (Right channel only)
The Channel Selector applies to all Filters, Effects and Editing functions accept for tools that change the overall length of the file. Generally, one would tend to leave this feature in the L/R (Both channel) position unless dealing with special editing or sound restoration issues.
Note: You can click on any of the Channel controls while playing to select either the Left, Right or Both channels. When previewing a filter, both channels will always be previewed, but only the channel selected before the preview starts will be affected by the filter.
File Toolbar
The main DCArt10/DC Forensics10 File Toolbar resides along the top of the program window. It contains the most commonly used file functions of the program. Clicking on them with the left mouse button activates them.
Filter and Effects Toolbar
The Filter and Effects Toolbar also resides near the top of the program window. It contains buttons for the most commonly used filters and effects. This toolbar, like the others, "floats" and can be dragged and dropped anywhere within the DCArt10/DC Forensics10 window using the mouse. Clicking on them with the left mouse button activates them. Forensics Toolbar
The Forensics Toolbar contains buttons for the most commonly used Forensics filters and tools. Play Controls Toolbar
This toolbar contains the “Transport” controls for recording and playback of the audio.
Status Bar
The Status Bar resides along the bottom of the program window. Six Diamond Cut Software related parameters are displayed therein:
Note:Clicking on the various menu items will also activate a one-line help text file, which describes each item.
You can choose between a wide variety of skins, themes, colors and fonts. Experiment with this until you obtain your favorite look, or if you get bored with a given look, change it on occasion for variety.
If you prefer the classic old way that the software looked with Windows XP, you can get back to that appearance by choosing the Windows XP selection. Also, please note that not all skins and themes support variable color schemes or font sizes. The “Display” preference for showing the dialog color schemes (found under the Edit\Preferences\Display tab) is by default left on when you enable a theme. Users may want to turn these off to see the full effect of the display theme that they have chosen.
Enabling or Disabling Toolbars in DCArt10/DC Forensics10
The following toolbars may be turned on or off by the user by simply checking or un-checking them from the View menu item. The Diamond Cut Toolbars are both movable and dock-able.
Customizing Your Toolbar(s)
One of the Customize Dialog Boxes
You can custom configure your toolbars using the following technique:
1. Click the Toolbars Tab.
2. Click Customize.
4. Click Toolbars.
5. Click New.
6. Add name of new Toolbar.
7. Click “ok”.
8. Click on Commands Tab.
9. Select Tools from menu options.
10. Drag and Drop the Command from the Right window onto the Toolbar.
11. Close customize when you have your toolbar set up as you want it.
12. Reposition or Dock the toolbar depending on your needs.
Toolbars and Customize Windows will bring up this Dialog Box
Channel Toolbar
Just beneath the filter and effects toolbar and towards the left of the display can be found the Channel Selector Toolbar. This allows you to choose which channels are to be operated on by the system. Your choices are as follows:
1. L/R (Both channels)
2. L (Left channel only)
3. R (Right channel only)
The Channel Selector applies to all Filters, Effects and Editing functions accept for tools that change the overall length of the file. Generally, one would tend to leave this feature in the L/R (Both channel) position unless dealing with special editing or sound restoration issues.
Note: You can click on any of the Channel controls while playing to select either the Left, Right or Both channels. When previewing a filter, both channels will always be previewed, but only the channel selected before the preview starts will be affected by the filter.
File Toolbar
The main DCArt10/DC Forensics10 File Toolbar resides along the top of the program window. It contains the most commonly used file functions of the program. Clicking on them with the left mouse button activates them.
Filter and Effects Toolbar
The Filter and Effects Toolbar also resides near the top of the program window. It contains buttons for the most commonly used filters and effects. This toolbar, like the others, "floats" and can be dragged and dropped anywhere within the DCArt10/DC Forensics10 window using the mouse. Clicking on them with the left mouse button activates them. Forensics Toolbar
The Forensics Toolbar contains buttons for the most commonly used Forensics filters and tools. Play Controls Toolbar
This toolbar contains the “Transport” controls for recording and playback of the audio.
Status Bar
The Status Bar resides along the bottom of the program window. Six Diamond Cut Software related parameters are displayed therein:
- Program Mode is displayed in the lower left-hand field. Initially, it will indicate “Ready”. Clicking on the various toolbar buttons (from left to right) will enable the following functions and indicate the following operation on the status bar:
- Open an existing Waveform audio file
- Save the active Document
- Delete a Section of a .wav file
- Copy selection and put it on the clipboard
- Paste Clipboard contents over the selected area
- Context Sensitive Help
- Rewind file position to beginning
- Pause Playback of the selected file
- Fast Forward to the end of the file
- Start Recording an Audio file
- Stop Playback of the Current file
- Play the selected File
- Zoom-In to the selected area of the sound file
- Zoom-Out to the last selected sound file
Note:Clicking on the various menu items will also activate a one-line help text file, which describes each item.
- Channels Used: The field to the right of the "Program Mode" field shows the number of channels being used and will indicate either mono or stereo.
- Sample Rate: The next field moving towards the right shows the sample rate in kHz.
- Bit Rate: The next field moving towards the right shows the bits per sample of the current file.
- Highlighted Length: The next field tells you the length of time for a highlighted portion of the Source or Destination workspace.
- Available Hard Drive Space: The next field indicates the Available Hard Drive Space in Mbytes. This is useful to determine whether or not there is enough storage space to perform your processing.