The things I have learned about SpectrumLab (3)

Programming SpectrumLab's spare Buttons:

Clearing the Waterfall:

Ever wanted a button in SpecLab, that would (say), Clear the Waterfall? Or perhaps Resize the screen to your particular Standard Size?  Well you can program some of the spare buttons on the mains screen of Spectrum lab to do just that, and you can specify a short-cut key to press, for the same action you specify in each button.

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Normally the buttons numbered #6 to #11 are not programmed, so I have used Button #6 to "Clear the Waterfall", I used the words "Clear Screen" to give me room to add "(F10)" to the Button top.  Here's how to do it.

Right Click Button #6; this menu should open, and fill out the text as shown below:

Click OK when done and Button 6 will now Clear the Water Fall.  If you press F10 on the keyboard the water fall will also be cleared.  

Don't forget to do a save to your "Config" file, before you exit SpecLab!  Otherwise you will have to do this all over again....

Setting a Standard Screen Size:

I deduced that a SpectrumLab screen size of 1247 x 699 pixels would give me a Screen Capture size of exactly 1100 x 640 pixels - a convenient size to show on a modern wide screen monitor with space to spare, and also fit into the screen of the older squarer faced monitors, when viewing my Web Site.  So for convenience in setting the Screen Size, and more importantly the Screen Capture size for both the Screen Captures I display on my Web Site Grabber pages, I used Button #7 to set this automatically for me.

Here is how I programmed Button #7.  Firstly it is important to note, that you have to turn OFF the lock window size parameter in SpecLab **View/Windows**Lock Window sizes** otherwise this button will not work!

Right Click Button #7; this menu should open, and fill out the text as shown below:

Click OK when done and Button #7 will now correctly size the on-screen size of SpecLab to 1247 x 699 pixels, if you press F11 on the keyboard the screen size will also be set.  More importantly the online Captures will be exactly 1100 x 640 pixels allowing you to correctly set the picture size within the html coding for your Web Site.

Do turn ON the lock window size parameter in SpecLab *View/Windows**Lock Window sizes* after resizing the screen as this will prevent inadvertent changes in Screen size occurring at embarrassing moments!

Don't forget to do a save to your "Config" file, before you exit SpecLab!  Otherwise you will have to do this all over again....

Pete Mulhare

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15 Jan 2016