DSDPlus Fast Lane - Desktop Presentation (Configuration)

[wgbecks]

DSDPlus Fast Lane - Desktop Presentation (Configuration)

Are you tired of wrestling with placement of your DSDPlus Fast Lane screens every time you start up your program files?
Would you like a consistent presentation of your screens on the desktop?

The screen capture below was taken from my Lenovo ThinkPad to illustrate the appearance of my installation of DSDPLus Fast Lane
that starts from just single shortcut (.lnk) on the desktop.



Please reference the attached zip archive. There you'll find DSD + MPSCS, the shortcut used to initiate scanning of the nearby MPSCS P25 system.
This shortcut points to C:\DSDPlus\MPSCS.bat that starts the ball rolling. The mpscs.bat file calls two additional shortcuts, C:\DSDPlus\FMP24_CC_bat.lnk
and C:\DSDPlus\1R_bat.lnk. More on these in a moment....

C:\DSDPlus\FMP24_CC_bat.lnk calls C:\DSDPlus\FMP24-CC.bat that loads and passes the configuration arguments to fmp24exe.
C:\DSDPlus\1R_bat.lnk calls C:\DSDPlus\1R.bat that loads and passes configuration arguments to DSDPlus.exe.

The purpose of the two shortcuts is to allow you to configure window placement, window size, font sets, and etc. Examine the Layout Tab in the Properties for
each of these two link files. These settings work in conjunction with your source audio, event log, and channel activity window settings to control the overall
placement and presentation on the desktop.

The above example is based upon my ThinkPad that has a screen resolution of 1920x1080 on a 14" display... You'll want to open up your applications, size and drag them around your liking. Once you're happy with layout, issue the W command in the event screen and note the widow settings that will need to set the arguments that go into C:\DSDPlus\1R.bat. This is prerequisite to proceeding to creation and layout adjustment of your C:\DSDPlus\FMP24_CC.lnk and C:\DSDPlus\1R_.lnk files.

Keep in mind that the Channel Activity screen grows vertically as it populates with Voice Trunk frequencies from the local system. You'll need to account for
this in sizing and placement of the other windows in your desktop presentation. Be patient, it will take some cut and try before you get it setup exactly how
you want it to look.

Best regards,

Bill

 

[GTR8000]

(This post pertains to Fast Lane releases only)

DSDPlus.bin takes care of remembering the position of all DSD+ windows, introduced in DSD+ v2.18. Using the command line to specify placement is no longer necessary.

DSDPlus.bin

A binary / non-editable configuration file has been added to DSD+.

Changes to the following parameters are stored in DSDPlus.bin:

Listen threshold (T/t)
Invert polarity (P)
Voice call start alert (V)
Show/hide background events (B)

Console window:

initial minimized/restored state

Source audio window:

location
size
high contrast mode (H)
minimized/restored state

Channel activity window:

location
text size
high contrast mode (H)
minimized/restored state

Event log window:

location
size
text size
high contrast mode (H)
minimized/restored state

Separate copies of parameters are stored for:

DSD+

CC DSD+ (-rc)

VC DSD+ (-rv)

Each unique instance (-F<num>) of DSD+, CC DSD+ and VC DSD+

Command line entries override DSDPlus.bin file entries.

Command line entries are not saved to DSDPlus.bin; only user-initiated adjustments
that are made while DSD+ is running are saved to DSDPlus.bin (exception: -_<num>)

 

[wgbecks]

(This post pertains to Fast Lane releases only)

DSDPlus.bin takes care of remembering the position of all DSD+ windows, introduced in DSD+ v2.18. Using the command line to specify placement is no longer necessary.

What you have stated is true. My post stated how my config with the .lnk files work in conjunction to those window settings
in DSDPlus FL. But unless I missed it, there are no settings to control the Console Window. That is essentially what this controls.

Strictly optional. It's only my cut at how I like to have things present on my desktop!

 

[GTR8000]

You're correct, the only parameter it saves for the console window is the minimized state, not size/position.

 

[slicerwizard]

I use desktop shortcuts to the DSD+ and FMPx batch files and those shortcuts have editable properties that control console window position, size, scrollback depth and colors. Easy peasy and no need to stare at fugly white on black console windows.

 

[LimaZulu]

Me, personally, I don't use console windows that often. Only when I'm tuning to something new just to follow the errors or if I'm looking into something special but there are logs for that thing as seeing something specific throughout the constant flow in the console is a pain in the @ss Don't like the source audio window either I do like to see event windows, channel activity windows as long with the system performance (as this is dedicated sdr machine) and when last backup was performed (simple batch script that is making a copy of my DSDPlus important files and spearates the audio files to dedicated folders for the different systems).

P.S.: Maybe we could start a thread in the Pictures section where we could share pictures of our desktops runing DSDPlus This is how my desktop looks:

 

[DaveNF2G]

Here is one of several configurations I use.

 

[wgbecks]

Here is one of several configurations I use.

The Desktop Presentation is always a mater of personal preference and need. I am particularly interested in some of the data available in the console and wanted a way to give it some control as is already built into the major DSDPlus components. Perhaps as time goes by that one day DSDPLus will evolve into a unified application and presentation that we can eliminate batch files and shortcuts.

Right now I am very happy with the overall functionality and can wait for the lipstick and maskcara. Kudos to the DSDPlus Fast Lane Team!