Echoview Configuration dialog box

Settings

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Settings

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Edit...

Use Edit to create custom shortcuts, re-assign existing shortcuts and save the edits.

For more information on the rules for the content of this file refer to User-defined keyboard shortcuts.

Reload File

Use Reload to allow Echoview to use your custom shortcut file.

Restore Defaults

Use Restore Defaults to allow Echoview to revert to default shortcut key assignments.

Settings

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Show captions on toolbar buttons

The Show captions on toolbar buttons list is used to select whether a caption is displayed next to applicable toolbar buttons. See Echogram toolbar for more information.

Remember the previous docked/floating state when reopening a window

Select or clear this setting to determine the behavior when reopening a window.

Remember the last tool used on each window

Select or clear this setting to determine tool/window behavior. Affects cruisetrack and echogram windows. The default for the setting is Clear.

Show the mouse pointer on secondary windows (Mouse pointer duplication)

Select or clear this setting to duplicate the active mouse pointer time position in open echograms, cruisetracks, alongtrack displays and supported graphs. See also Mouse pointer duplication.

Default color scheme for raw variables:

Selects the default color scheme applied to newly created raw acoustic variables when they are added to an EV file. If set to None (the default), Echoview will assign a color scheme based on the data type and hardware source. This setting does not affect virtual variables, which inherit their color scheme from their input operand, or angular variables, which require specialized angle color schemes. See also About color schemes.

Use alternate color scheme

Select or clear this setting to toggle between the primary and alternate versions of the selected color scheme, affecting how thresholded sections (above and below limits) are displayed. The Default color scheme list shows both the color scheme bar and its name.

Settings

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Echoview

Click the desired option to re-enable messages to which you have previously chosen not to display.

Other Programs

Show message dialogs only for messages that require an answer

Select when you want to see only message dialog boxes that require more than a simple OK response.

Log messages you interact with to the message bar

Select when you want to send messages that you interact with to the Message bar. This action keeps a record of important messages.

Disable the Code operator warning message

Select to turn off the security warning displayed for the Code and Code - Time series operators. See the Security information.

Note: A new version of Echoview returns Disable the Code operator warning message to unselected.

Settings

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Horizontal sensitivity

Used to set the sensitivity of the mouse on the horizontal axis.

Vertical sensitivity

Used to set the sensitivity of the mouse on the vertical axis.

In-out sensitivity

Used to set the sensitivity of the mouse in the in-out axis.

Reverse horizontal and vertical motion

Selecting (and clearing) this option switches the relationship between mouse movements and the resulting on-screen movement, e.g. in one selection state a left movement with the mouse will result in a left movement on the screen, in the other selection state a left movement with the mouse will result in a right movement on the screen.

Restore Defaults

Click this button to reset Echoview's default 3D mouse navigation settings.

Click to clear the folder for a selected file type.

Click to specify the folder for a selected file type.

If you want the Open, Save, Import or Export dialog boxes for each file type to remember the folder to which you browsed last time, and display that folder again select this option.

The first time the dialog box is displayed in any Echoview session it will display the location defined in the File Types table above (or generally the last location used by any dialog box in Echoview if the File Types list above has no entry).

Available when a location is specified for EVI files. Select to have Echoview manage the size of that directory.

After all data files in an EV file have been read, Echoview calculates the combined size of all files in the EVI files directory and its subdirectories. If the directory exceeds the specified maximum size, Echoview deletes the oldest EVI files until the directory is within the limit. Other file types contribute to the calculated directory size but are not deleted.

Specifies the maximum size of the EVI files directory, in gigabytes. Available when Delete oldest EVI files if target directory size reached is selected.

Select to start live viewing automatically when Echoview starts and detects a logger. You can display the incoming data by opening a raw variable from the fileset.

Select to write a message to the Echoview log file at regular intervals during live viewing. Automated systems can use these messages to confirm that Echoview is running and live viewing remains active.