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Chapter 8Preferences and OptionsAbout this chapterThe first section of this chapter discusses how to customize Canary’s defaultsettings using preference files.The remainder of this chapter discusses the following commands on Canary’sOptions menu:Manual scaling...Display...Speed...General...Control horizontal and vertical scaling of signal andcorrelation windows.Control spectrogram highlighting and other displayparameters.Control calculation speed and programresponsiveness.Control program startup and exit behavior.Signal calibration, multi-track options, and measurement panel configuration,which are also accessed via the Options menu, are discussed in Chapters 4, 5,and 6, respectively.PreferencesCanary allows you to save various options and settings in preference files. Youcan have as many different preference files as you want, and you can load anew preference file any time while you’re running Canary. Preference filesenable you to recall configurations of options quickly and easily. For example,if you work on two projects that use different combinations of measurementson the measurement panel, you can save the measurement panelconfigurations in two separate preference files. Then you can instantlyreconfigure the measurement panel just by loading the appropriate preferencefile.Information savedin preference filesMany of Canary’s dialog boxes contain a Save or Save default button thatallows you to record the settings of all the dialog’s controls in the currentpreference file. Once the settings are recorded, the dialog box will displaythose settings whenever the dialog is first opened after that preference file isloaded.The Spectrogram Options and Spectrum Options dialogs allow you to savemultiple named sets of options in a single preference file, and then recall themby name from a popup menu (see Chapter 3).Canary saves the settings of all of these dialog boxes, the settings of thecommand panel’s volume and rate control sliders, and the positions of theCanary 1.2 User’s Manual 123