The DART-Eye dialog appears in the middle of the screen after you press the E
key (provided that no other dialog is open) and contains a textbox with information about an active soundfile. If you define the "hyper-window" of your talking program so that it coincides with the DART-Eye's textbox you will be able to find out the relevant details of a selected file. The contents of the textbox depend on the question you pose by pressing an appropriate key, e.g., to check the name of an active file press F
, to learn about the current cursor position press C
etc. - the list of available questions is given below:
A
= All files (a list of all opened files)
F
= File (sound file / binary file, filename)
L
= File length (number of samples and time)
C
= Cursor position (sample number and time, relative position, sample value)
R
= Time resolution (number of samples per one screen pixel)
T
= File type (mono/stereo, sampling frequency, sampling resolution)
S
= Source status (active/inactive or 'none')
D
= Destination status (active/inactive or 'none')
B
= Beginning of the block (sample number and time or 'none')
E
= End of the block (sample number and time or 'none')
P
= Processing details (processing tool, processing parameters etc.) - for registered soundfiles only
Nine elementary messages (containing numbers only) are also available upon request:
1
= cursor position in samples
2
= cursor position in seconds
3
= relative cursor position
4
= sample value
5
= screen resolution
6
= beginning of the block in samples
7
= beginning of the block in seconds
8
= end of the block in samples
9
= end of the block in seconds
In order to close the DART-Eye dialog press the ESC
key.
NOTICE
For your convenience, each time you call DART-Eye the last-checked message is automatically displayed.