Sunday, July 18, 2010

Customizing Streamster™

Streamster allows you to customize it in many ways. You are able to setup sounds, voice and visual notifications, resize and relocate windows, change the way Streamster minimizes and much more.

Setting up sound, voice and visual notifications
Streamster can trigger an audio or visual notification for an alert or a news story. If an alert or news item is of low importance, no notification will be generated. Alerts or news items of normal importance generate a sound.

To disable the sound notifications:
  • Click the Settings button.
  • Disable the box next to the Beep when a news item or alert is received.
  • Click OK to confirm.
Alerts or news items of high priority are pronounced by using the currently active text-to-speech engine (if available).


To disable the speech notifications:
  • Click the Settings button.
  • Disable the box next to the Pronounce high-priority news and alerts.
  • Click OK to confirm.
To configure the default voice in which the speech notifications are played back, please consult Windows Help.

Resizing windows in Streamster
In order to resize a window within the Streamster, you need to click and drag the border of the particular window you want to resize. Windows can be resized horizontally and vertically.

Relocating and splitting windows
Streamster allows you to completely change placement and order of its windows. If you click on a window tab (without releasing mouse button) and drag it to a section of an existing window, that window will split into two new windows. You can do the same but in opposite direction: merge all windows into one.

Changing the way Streamster shows in taskbar
You are able to choose which way you want Streamster to behave when minimized. By default, Streamster minimizes to your taskbar, but if you check "Show icon in the taskbar when Streamster is minimized" in the Settings dialog on the Advanced tab, Streamster will minimize to the system tray.

Using descriptive names for Charting tabs
By default, names of Charting tabs are non-descriptive and additional charts contain respective order numbers only. In order to see tabs with instrument and chart range shown in Charting tabs, you need to do the following:
  • Click the Settings button.
  • Enable the box next to the Use descriptive names for Charting tabs.
  • Click OK to confirm.

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