Text Window has four configuration sections:
| Enable text window | - | Check this box to enable the text window.
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| Borderless | - | Check this box to display the
text window as a borderless window. When the window is borderless, it
cannot be resized by dragging its edges.
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| Start buttonized | - | If checked,
window will start in its buttonized state when Now Playing is
first loaded.
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| Hide when not playing | - | If checked, the text window will be hidden
when QCD is not playing. If gray, the text window will be hidden when
the playlist is empty.
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| Auto resize to text | - | If checked, the text window will
be automatically resized to fit the displayed text. The text will scroll
(if scrolling is enabled) if the displayed text is wider than the
maximum value, or if the active window (plus the left margin and
distance from active window right) is smaller than the text width. The window will not be shown if its designated size is smaller than the
minimum value, or if the active window is too small to fit the text and
scrolling is disabled. Note 1: to avoid constant (and
annoying) window resizing, auto resize changes window dimensions only
when text string length changes (for instance, at track change). Note
2: if the active window is the text window itself or the taskbar
when auto resizing is needed, the window will resize only when focus
changes.
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| Width & height | - | Window dimensions.
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| Color | - | Window background color.
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| Distance from active... | - | The text window stays "glued" to
the active window by maintaining a constant distance from its top right
corner. These settings define distance from top and from right.
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| Buttonized width & color | - | Window width and color when it is buttonized (buttonizing
the window is done by double-clicking it).
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| Left margin | - | Minimum distance the window will
keep from the active window left, thus stopping the text window from
following small windows such as dialog boxes. If the active window is
smaller than left margin + width + distance from active window right,
the text window will not be shown. In "auto resize" mode,
active window must be smaller than left margin + min. width +
distance from active window right for the text window not to be
shown.
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| Use default position | - | If this box is checked, the text window will be placed in the default position (in regular mode only), in some cases where it would otherwise be hidden: when the active window is too small for the text window, or when there is no active window. The position is determined by the X,Y settings, where X is the left or right edge (as determined by the "anchor" setting) and Y is the top edge. The default position can be set here or via the right-click menu, where pressing "set default position" sets the current window position as the default position. |
Text
| Text properties button | - | This button opens a dialog box for selecting
font, size and style.
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| Color | - | Text color.
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| Text alignment | - | Text alignment in window.
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| Scroll | - | Checked: always scroll; unchecked: never
scroll; gray: auto scroll.
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| Scroll speed | - | Speed of scrolling text, from 1 to 50. Note:
from a certain speed value and up, there may be no difference in
scroll speed when the value is changed; this is because the time it
takes to process the text window (depends on processor power, RAM and
display adapter) may be greater then the desired speed.
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| Vertical offset | - | If the text appears too low or too high in
the window, this setting (in pixels) allows for proper vertical
positioning. A positive value raises the text, while a negative value
lowers the text.
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| Text strings | - | If enable text window is checked,
these are the strings that will be displayed in the text window for each
media type, and for all media types when stopped. The
"playing" strings are also used for QuickTrack.
Many tags can be used to display real time data from QCD:
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This section determines properties of the text window context
(right-click) menu.
QuickTrack formatting is based on the "playing"
strings.
The qLib link opens
the qLib Track Editor, if the qLib
plugin exists on the system.
| Freeze window position | - | Check this box to freeze the text window in
its current position, so it doesn't follow the active window; the window
can still be dragged around the screen. This
setting affects when the window is visible (see the overview
page).
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| Snap to desktop | - | When moving the window by dragging it with
the left mouse button, the window will "snap" to the edges of
the desktop as it is approached. The setting determines the maximum
distance between the text window and the desktop for the window to be
"snapped".
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| Anchor | - | This setting determines which edge of the
text window remains static during auto resize and buttonize
(double-clicking). This setting is only relevant in frozen mode and when
default position is being used, since
when following active window, the anchor is always the right edge.
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| Always on top | - | Check this box for the text window to be always on top, even when QCD is not. When QCD is always on top or when text window is not frozen, the text window will always be on top regardless of this setting. |
General buttons
| Defaults | - | Fill all dialog fields with their default
values (this does not save the values; OK or apply must be
pressed afterwards).
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| Web Help | - | Open Now Playing web help in the default
browser.
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| Cancel | - | Discard changes and close dialog.
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| Apply | - | Accept changes and leave dialog open
(pressing cancel afterwards will not undo these changes).
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| OK | - | Accept changes and close dialog. |