The Preferences dialog provides control over general settings which affect the general behaviour of Doggiebox and are persistent across sessions.
The Preferences dialog
The various preferences settings are broken into three main groups, which are discussed below.
By default, Doggiebox displays a splash screen when you launch the program, indicating the current version and license information. If you find this annoying, and are a registered user, you may disable the splash screen by removing the checkmark beside Show splash screen at launch.
This group of settings provides control over default properties when creating a new song.
You may specify a default drum kit by clicking the Choose... button. A file dialog will prompt you to choose a Doggiebox drum kit file (similar to the mechanism in the song options dialog). The kit specified here will automatically be offered as the default when creating new songs.
When a new song is created, it will contain no bars. By clicking the Specify... button you may specify a starting point with which to populate newly created songs, in terms of the number of bars and their tempo configurations. This feature is not yet implemented, but coming soon.
By default, Doggiebox will create a new untitled song whenever you launch the program, or click the dock icon with no documents currently open. To suppress this behaviour, remove the checkmark beside Create untitled song on startup.
This group of settings provides control over the appearance and behaviour of the song document window during general operation.
By default, Doggiebox presents all of the song's patterns in one horizontally-scrolling row in the pattern editor. However, you may wish to work in a two-dimensional space more akin to sheet music by resizing the document window larger and having the patterns laid out on multiple lines. The Number of bars per line radio buttons control this behaviour:
When playing back a song, the current bar and beat being played are by default tracked in real time with a green backfill in the pattern editor. If you wish to suppress the playback indicator, remove the checkmark beside Show position indicator during playback.