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