The way DART XP Pro's soundfile and binary windows are shown on the screen can be controlled using commands from the Window menu.
Unless specified differently by the user, all windows are displayed in a default strip mode, i.e. they are put in horizontal strips, one below the other. Strip mode can be set any time, by choosing the Strip command accessible from the Window menu.
If the number of open windows equals at least four, you can arrange them in two or more columns by choosing the Tile command from the Window menu. As the number of open windows increases, the strip mode is automatically switched to the tile mode if, due to the height limitation, the windows cannot be put in strips. Finally, if you choose the Cascade command from the Window menu, DART XP Pro's windows will be put in an overlapping, diagonally arranged cascade.
Regardless of the display mode, windows appear on the screen in alphabetical order (from top-left to bottom-right) in two groups, consisting of soundfile windows and binary windows.
Unless you work with the material distributed over different file directories, there is no need to show full path names of the files associated with the displayed windows. For this reason, if the default DART XP Pro setup is used, only the filenames appear on the title bars of the corresponding windows. If you don't like this arrangement, check the Full path names box in the Preferences dialog accessible from the Options menu.
NOTICE
The full path names may be required to distinguish files bearing identical names stored in different directories, e.g., to differentiate between c:\music\mozart.wav and d:\recordings\mozart.wav.
The active window (the one with the highlighted title bar) is connected to DART XP Pro menus, toolbar and overview. Most of the operations deal with the contents of the active window. In order to make a window active, click anywhere within its area. If you don't want to change the cursor position while activating the window, click outside the plot area.
Each of the displayed windows can be maximized, i.e. expanded to the entire desktop by pressing the MAXIMIZE
button (with a single box), situated in the upper right corner of the window. Use the RESTORE
button (the one with double box) placed in the upper right corner of the main DART XP Pro window, to reduce the maximized window to the normal size.
Using the MINIMIZE
button (with a horizontal bar) placed also in the upper right corner of each window you can minimize selected windows making more room for displaying the remaining ones. Minimized windows are replaced with the corresponding icons.
DART XP Pro automatically adjusts the size of all windows displayed in the strip or tile modes in such a way that the entire available screen area is covered. For this reason, icons of the minimized windows do not appear on the screen (they are hidden under the displayed windows) unless the display mode is changed to cascade. However, there is no need to switch to the cascade mode in order to restore minimized windows. All windows which are currently open (including the minimized ones) are listed in the Window menu - if you click on the title of the minimized window it will be brought back.
In order to analyze and efficiently compare different versions of the same sound material, you can synchronize the displayed windows. The full synchronization (provided by default when you start a new session with DART XP Pro) guarantees that all changes in display features made in the active soundfile window (position of the cursor, time zoom, volume zoom, offset, left/right channel selection, marker and block locations, info) will be automatically extended to other windows shown on the screen.
If you want to select custom features to be synchronized, or to disable synchronization, choose the appropriate option using the Synchronization dialog box accessible from the Window menu.
You can switch the synchronization on (Full) or off (None) by pressing the SYNCHRONIZE
button situated on the toolbar. However, the Synchronization dialog allowing you to select custom features due to be synchronized (Custom) is available only from the Window menu.