DART-Eye

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.