User-defineable menus

Still under construction !

Contents

• Loading settings from a "usr"-file and creating a menu item
• Creating an own user settings file (and a new menu item)

See also:    SpecLab's main index , configuration files

Loading settings from a "usr"- file and creating a menu item for it

To load the settings from a FILE with the extension ".usr"...

1. Open the "User defined menus & profiles" dialog from the Quick Settings menu.
2. Click on the "Import" button. A file selector appears, select the *.usr file you want to 'install' as a new menu item.
3. After clicking "OK" in the fileselector, the menu- and info text from the original author appears.
   You may modify them if you want. If you only want to load portions from the usr-file, clear the checkmarks for all sections which you do NOT want to load under "profile includes".
4. To load the settings (and install the new menu line), click on the "Ok, Load"-button (which was previously the "Ok, Save"-button).
   To abandon the installation of the new 'profile' as a menu item, click "Cancel".
5. After "Ok,Load" the new 'installed' profile appears as a menu line under "Quick Settings". Whenever you want to USE these settings now, just click on this menu.
   

Note: There is also a 'machine-configuration' which is not included in the settings of a 'usr'-file. The machine configuration is where calibration values are saved, etc. A *.usr-file has almost the same structure as the INI file where the current settings are saved. Changing something (in the configuration dialog) does not affect a *.usr-files, but the SETTINGS.INI file (or the configuration file you specified in the command line when starting the program).

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If you want to change quickly between several settings (configurations), you can use the Quick Settings menu to recall previously defined settings (either created by yourself or imported from a file which someone else prepared for you). This dialog can be used to add menu items to Spectrum Lab's "Quick Settings" menu:

To create your own entry under "Quick Settings" using the current settings,

1. Enter the "User defined menus & profiles" dialog from the Quick Settings menu.
2. Select the menu line you want to define with the up/down control.
   Menu Nr 1 is the topmost menu line.
3. Enter the text which shall appear in the menu.
4. Enter a 'profile name' for the settings. This will be the name of a disk file (don't type the file extension '.usr' into this field !)
5. Enter a short description in the 'info text' field.
6. Select if the currently used filter coefficients, color palette or other items shall be part of the new profile associated with the new menu item.
7. Click "Ok,Save" which will do the following:
   - an entry under "Quick Settings" will be modified
   - the current settings of Spectrum Lab will be written to a file (with the extension 'usr').
   After this, whenever you click into one of the 'user defined quick setting menus', the program will try to load the (user-) settings from the file.

You can look into all 'usr' files with any text editor. You can also mail the settings to others, so they can use your settings.

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