Official Starrsoft WIN500 Software Thread

[DonS]

"Listen to Don's Scanner" What are you using on the server side?

Windows Media Encoder

 

[DonS]

Don,

I am wondering how you set up the video portion of your stream. I haven't figured out how to do that yet.

Edit: Nevermind... Just figured it out ... Simple if I looked in the right place on Windows Media Encoder. lol

To make that 'screen capture' use the full 'separate LCD' window, you can use the MonLCDWndX and MonLCDWndY values in the Win500.ini file. The size of the window is 320 x 240. Some media players seem to want the 4:3 aspect ratio (e.g. WMP in my PocketPC, WM5 phone).

For example, I have WME configured with:
Capture Source = <Region of Screen>
Top left corner: 1600, 0
Width x Height: 320 x 240

 

[DonS]

1.05 / 1.06 combined release notes:

• In case very large fonts are being used, increase the size of the "separate LCD window" in 4x3 increments until the full LCD representation fits within it
• Fixed 'blue' color mapping in grids.
• Removed "Add wildcards..." check box from Conventional Web Import dialog
• Added column sorting. Right-clicking on column headers now shows options for sorting by that column, ascending or descending. Only columns that are normally available for sorting (i.e. fields that appear in the "Sort items..." dialogs for each grid) will have the new Sort menu items enabled. For example, if you right-click on the "Mod" column in the CONV grid, the new Sort items will be disabled.

 

[don333]

Win 500 Help

Just finished downloading the trial version of WIN 500. Is there any "HELP" for this program? I've never used the WIN programs before and it's all quite confusing to me.

Thanks.

 

[DonS]

Just finished downloading the trial version of WIN 500. Is there any "HELP" for this program? I've never used the WIN programs before and it's all quite confusing to me.

Thanks.

The "Help" file is on the short list of "to-do" items.

 

[Russell]

Windows Media Encoder

Thanks, again. -Russell

 

[kikito]

I maybe missing it but on the TSYS Objects tab, I can't seem to be able to sort by Delay or Light and other assorted fields. I know it might not be of much use to most but sometimes I like to do that as a way to quickly find out if some objects have different or disabled attributes like those. In the Priority field is handy to quickly group all the objects that have priority enabled and clear them all for example.

Anyway, could that be something that can be added Don?

 

[DonS]

I maybe missing it but on the TSYS Objects tab, I can't seem to be able to sort by Delay or Light and other assorted fields. I know it might not be of much use to most but sometimes I like to do that as a way to quickly find out if some objects have different or disabled attributes like those. In the Priority field is handy to quickly group all the objects that have priority enabled and clear them all for example.

Anyway, could that be something that can be added Don?

Version 1.07 has what I think would be the "important" fields: Priority flag, Atten flag, Lockout flag, Delay flag, and LED Color.

EDIT: You can already (pre-1.07) do the specific "turn off Priority for everything" operation in the All Objects tab. Select everything, then click on the "Priority" cell for any object that has Priority enabled. It will toggle that cell, then set all other selected objects to the new state. This works for all of the "checkbox" column types.

 

[rdale]

Is there a way to get a "notes" field for each object? Something that would not be related to the scanner, but maybe a way to add little tidbits so that at the least when programming there will be additional info. What I'd use it for is the web import - when I import MPSCS the options I have don't work the best, since I can either get the display ID (something like 59PD421) or the first 16 characters "MISSAUKEE COUNTY" and miss out on the "POLICE RESPONSE TEAM." So to "decode" I am printing out the RR list and matchin up the ID's. If the "MISSAUKEE COUNTY POLICE RESPONSE TEAM" was already in Win500, in the "notes" column, it'd make the conversion process quicker plus enable me to have the full description at least in the software (and maybe connected to the real-time display if I find new ones?)

 

[kikito]

Version 1.07 has what I think would be the "important" fields: Priority flag, Atten flag, Lockout flag, Delay flag, and LED Color.

That's great.

EDIT: You can already (pre-1.07) do the specific "turn off Priority for everything" operation in the All Objects tab. Select everything, then click on the "Priority" cell for any object that has Priority enabled. It will toggle that cell, then set all other selected objects to the new state. This works for all of the "checkbox" column types.

That works great too, thanks!

Off to try the newest version....

 

[rdale]

Bug I found a while ago but forgot til it creeped up again :>

Web import a trunked system. Set the initial TG object ID to 2000. Checked the wrong button for the display description, so deleted the TSYS and said "yes" to deleting the objects.

Imported again, Win500 would not let me use 2000 as the starting point because it said already in use. Double checked all object ID's, and nothing > 1500. Imported starting at 3000, went to change to 2000 after everything was set, and still rejected. Saved, shut down Win500, restarted, and was able to renumber to 2000.

 

[DonS]

Is there a way to get a "notes" field for each object?

That's one of the planned "Enhancements to per-object data".

 

[DonS]

Bug I found a while ago but forgot til it creeped up again :>

Web import a trunked system. Set the initial TG object ID to 2000. Checked the wrong button for the display description, so deleted the TSYS and said "yes" to deleting the objects.

Imported again, Win500 would not let me use 2000 as the starting point because it said already in use. Double checked all object ID's, and nothing > 1500. Imported starting at 3000, went to change to 2000 after everything was set, and still rejected. Saved, shut down Win500, restarted, and was able to renumber to 2000.

Found and fixed for 1.08. Until that version is released, the workaround is to delete the TSYS's TGRPs first, then delete the TSYS itself.

 

[KC9NEG]

Don, you're just great (but don't let it go to your head )!

Todd/Indy
(a very happy Win500 licensee)

 

[KC9NEG]

Suggestion for &quot;On the Fly&quot; Tag Editing During Import

Not sure if this is possible, but I have a suggestion for a way to handle tag editing during import from RR which addresses the fillowing issues:

1. RR "Description" attributes are so lenghty they result in duplicate tags when truncated to 16 characters.

2. RR "Display" attributes are usually so abbreviated (for scanners which can only display 12 or fewer characters) that they're hard to make sense of.

Here's what I'm thinking... Would it be possible to add another option for handling import of tags which does the following:

1. Imports the full RR "Description" attribute to the "Note" field when Notes are implemented as an "Enhancement to Per-Object Data".

2. Sequentially presents as the final step of (or immediately following) the import process the "Display" attribute and a 16-character field in close proximity to one another so we can do our own meaningful abbreviation.

3. Provide a user-customizable "Find and Replace" list to optionally "auto abbreviate" the "Display" attribute as a default, overwriteable starting point (e.g. "Police" to "PD", "County" to "Co", etc.

Hope this makes sense... Thoughts?
Todd/Indy

 

[troymail]

Not sure if this is possible, but I have a suggestion for a way to handle tag editing during import from RR which addresses the fillowing issues:

1. RR "Description" attributes are so lenghty they result in duplicate tags when truncated to 16 characters.

2. RR "Display" attributes are usually so abbreviated (for scanners which can only display 12 or fewer characters) that they're hard to make sense of.

Here's what I'm thinking... Would it be possible to add another option for handling import of tags which does the following:

1. Imports the full RR "Description" attribute to the "Note" field when Notes are implemented as an "Enhancement to Per-Object Data".

2. Sequentially presents as the final step of (or immediately following) the import process the "Display" attribute and a 16-character field in close proximity to one another so we can do our own meaningful abbreviation.

3. Provide a user-customizable "Find and Replace" list to optionally "auto abbreviate" the "Display" attribute as a default, overwriteable starting point (e.g. "Police" to "PD", "County" to "Co", etc.

Hope this makes sense... Thoughts?
Todd/Indy

I had proposed something similar to Don.... well, sort of...

I'm looking for an ability to import systems using the short (display) name but also include some form of the "group" name (i.e. "Police Talkgroups", "Fire/EMS Talkgroups", etc.). Right now, you get (a) TGID, (b) display name, or (c) description... TGID doesn't really help, display name is good but many times the display name assumes you know what "zone" or "subgroup" you are in (police TGs, etc.) and the descriptions are usually too long, get truncated and end up looking the same or very similar.

I'd like to be able to "insert" a partial label to (at least) prefix the TG display name - for example: the display name is "1A Disp".... make it "Fire 1A Disp" ... even better -> "1A Fire Disp" (insert in the middle).... right now, I need to download the XML to a file and then edit each name or edit them in Win500.

 

[DonS]

I've implemented the "Notes" field for all object grids (really just allowed the user to see/edit the field - it was always in the P500 file).

There's a checkbox in the "web import settings" dialog that will populate the Notes field with the text information from RR. For a TSYS, this is the SysID plus the long name. For TGRP and CONV objects, it's the "Description" field.

You'll still have to manually edit imported TGRP tags. However, seeing the "Notes" populated with the Description should take care of the request(s) above: check the new "Notes" box in the import dialog and select "Display" for the TGRP tag. Then, "sequentially" go through the imported TGRPs (back in the TSYS tab) editing any TGRP tags based on the populated "Notes" field - you'll see the imported Display and Description attributes in the grid, allowing you to make your meaningful abbreviations.

 

[DonS]

Oops. Looks like I broke copy/paste with the handling of the "Notes" field. You may want to hold off until 1.09....

 

[KC9NEG]

Sounds great, Don... Can't wait for 1.09. My 500 is off to LilKase for measuring, so it's a good time to dig deeper into Win500.

Todd/Indy

 

[DonS]

Version 1.09 is available. Fixes the copy/paste problem introduced in 1.08.