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21 | <title>Disobedience: Window Layout</title> | |
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26 | <body> | |
27 | <h1>2. Window Layout</h1> | |
28 | ||
29 | <p>This chapter covers the following topics:</p> | |
30 | ||
31 | <ul> | |
32 | </ul> | |
33 | ||
34 | <h2>2.1 The Disobedience Window</h2> | |
35 | ||
36 | <p>Disobedience should look something like this when you've started | |
37 | it up and logged in:</p> | |
38 | ||
39 | <p class=image><img src="queue.png"></p> | |
40 | ||
41 | <p>At the top is the menu bar, and immediately below it a toolbar | |
42 | with some buttons and a volume control. (In some cases the volume | |
43 | control may be absent.) Below that is a row of | |
44 | tabs: <b>Queue</b>, <b>Recent</b> and so on. The <b>Queue</b> tab | |
45 | is selected: this displays the currently playing track and the list | |
46 | of tracks that will play in the near future.</p> | |
47 | ||
48 | <p>In this example nothing is actually playing. (Apart from the | |
49 | fact that you wouldn't hear anything) you can tell this because the | |
50 | top row only has a single length indicator (“3:04”). | |
51 | If it was playing it would show how far through the track it was | |
52 | too. Secondly, all the tracks were chosen at random. You can tell | |
53 | this because the <b>Who</b> column is empty. | |
54 | ||
55 | <p>In the screenshot below both of these things have changed. | |
56 | Use <tt>rjk</tt> has selected some tracks and the first of them is | |
57 | playing.</p> | |
58 | ||
59 | <p class=image><img src="queue2.png"></p> | |
60 | ||
61 | <p>The first track is 4 minutes and 10 seconds long and so far, the | |
62 | first 21 seconds of it has played.</p> | |
63 | ||
64 | <h2>2.2 Buttons</h2> | |
65 | ||
66 | <p>The meaning of the buttons is as follows:</p> | |
67 | ||
68 | <table> | |
69 | <tr> | |
70 | <td><img src="button-pause.png"></td> | |
71 | <td>The pause button. This only effective when a track is | |
72 | playing. When it is pressed the playing track is paused and | |
73 | the button turns into a “play” icon instead.</td> | |
74 | </tr> | |
75 | ||
76 | <tr> | |
77 | <td><img src="button-scratch.png"></td> | |
78 | <td>The scratch button. As above this is only effective when | |
79 | a track is playing. Pressing it will stop that track playing | |
80 | and move onto the next one.</td> | |
81 | </tr> | |
82 | ||
83 | <tr> | |
84 | <td><img src="button-random.png"></td> | |
85 | <td>The random play button. Random play means that if | |
86 | nothing is playing the server will automatically pick a track | |
87 | at random and play that. Furthermore it will ensure that the | |
88 | queue always has a minimum number of tracks, so you can see | |
89 | ahead of time what will play next.<br> | |
90 | As shown, random play is disabled. The button goes green | |
91 | when it is enabled.</td> | |
92 | </tr> | |
93 | ||
94 | <tr> | |
95 | <td><img src="button-playing.png"></td> | |
96 | <td>The playing button. Normally this would always be left | |
97 | enabled (green). If it is disabled then nothing will be | |
98 | played at all, regardless of whether it was randomly chosen | |
99 | or picked by a human.</td> | |
100 | </tr> | |
101 | ||
102 | <tr> | |
103 | <td><img src="button-rtp.png"></td> | |
104 | <td>The network play button. This is only effective if the | |
105 | server is playing over the network (as opposed to using a | |
106 | local sound card). When network play is enabled, | |
107 | Disobedience runs a client program on your computer to play | |
108 | sound received over the network using your sound card.<br> | |
109 | As shown, network play is disabled. The button goes green | |
110 | when it is enabled.</td> | |
111 | </tr> | |
112 | </table> | |
113 | ||
114 | <p>To the right of the buttons are two sliders:</p> | |
115 | ||
116 | <p class=image><img src="volume-slider.png"></p> | |
117 | ||
118 | <p>The left hand slider is the volume control. This ranges from 0 | |
119 | (silent) to 10 (loudest). The right hand slider is the balance | |
120 | control, which ranges form -1.0 (left) to +1.0 (right).</p> | |
121 | ||
122 | <h2>2.3 The Menu Bar</h2> | |
123 | ||
124 | <p class=image><img src="menu-server.png"></p> | |
125 | ||
126 | <p>The <b>Server</b> menu is loosely analogous to the <b>File</b> | |
127 | menu in othe applications. It has no file-related options though, | |
128 | so the name would not be appropriate! Instead the three options it | |
129 | has are <b>Login</b>, which brings back the login window shown the | |
130 | first time it is run, <b>Manage Users</b> which allows | |
131 | adminstrators to do user management, and <b>Quit</b>.</p> | |
132 | ||
133 | <!-- TODO link to use management --> | |
134 | ||
135 | <p class=image><img src="menu-edit.png"></p> | |
136 | ||
137 | <p>The <b>Edit</b> menu has options to select or deselect all | |
138 | tracks. You can also do this with CTRL-A and CTRL-SHIFT-A, and of | |
139 | course you can select tracks in the queue (or other tabs) with the | |
140 | mouse.</p> | |
141 | ||
142 | <p>The <b>Track Properties</b> option will create a window with | |
143 | editable properties of each selected track and the <b>Edit | |
144 | Playlists</b> option will create a window allowing editing of | |
145 | playlists.</p> | |
146 | ||
147 | <!-- TODO link to properties --> | |
148 | ||
149 | <!-- TODO link to playlists --> | |
150 | ||
151 | <p class=image><img src="menu-control.png"></p> | |
152 | ||
153 | <p>The <b>Control</b> menu options are mostly equivalent to the | |
154 | buttons described above. The one exception is <b>Activate | |
155 | Playlist</b> which allows you to play a playlist.</p> | |
156 | ||
157 | <!-- TODO link to playlists --> | |
158 | ||
159 | <p class=image><img src="menu-help.png"></p> | |
160 | ||
161 | <p>The <b>Help</b> menu has an option to bring up the Disobedience | |
162 | manual and an <b>About</b> option which will display a bit of | |
163 | version information for the server and for Disobedience (which | |
164 | might not be the same).</p> | |
165 | ||
166 | </body> | |
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