You can control many aspects of WAVE's appearance and behaviour by setting its
resources. If you are not familiar with this concept, refer to an introductory
book on using the X Window System, such as Quercia and O'Reilly's `X Window
System User's Guide'. Since WAVE is built using the XView toolkit, all of the
resources listed in the man page for XView can be used with WAVE (type `man
xview' for details). In addition, the WAVE-specific resources listed below may
also be set. Those marked with a `*' are recorded in your `.Xdefaults' file
when you use the `Save as new defaults' button in the `View' panel.
If you use WAVE on workstations with different display capabilities, you can
create custom resource settings for each one by moving these resource
definitions from .Xdefaults to .Xdefaults-HOSTNAME (where HOSTNAME specifies
the system to which the display is attached). The resources marked below with
a `+' are those that are most likely to require different settings on different
displays, but any of the others can also be moved to .Xdefaults-HOSTNAME.
Wave.AllowDottedLines * +
This resource specifies if WAVE is allowed to render dotted lines. WAVE
normally draws annotation marker bars as dotted lines, and may use dotted
lines for other display elements on black-and-white displays for clarity.
Some X servers do not properly render dotted lines, however; if you
observe irregular or missing annotation marker bars, change the value of
this resource from `True' to `False' (by editing `.Xdefaults').
Wave.Anntab
This resource specifies the name of a file that contains a table of
annotation definitions. The environment variable ANNTAB can also be used
to specify this filename; the resource overrides the environment variable
if both are set. The file contains one-line entries of the form
15 % Funny looking beat
in which the first field specifies the (numeric) annotation code in the
range between 1 and ACMAX inclusive (see /usr/include/ecg/ecgcodes.h for a
list of predefined codes and for the definition of ACMAX); the second
field (`%' in the example) is a mnemonic (used in annotation display and
entry), and the remainder of the entry is a description of the intended use
of the annotation code (which appears next to the mnemonic in the `Type'
field and menu of `Annotation Template' windows). Lines in the annotation
table that begin with `#' are treated as comments and ignored. It is not
necessary to specify an annotation table when editing an existing
annotation file unless previously undefined annotation types are to be
added to it during the editing process, although it is generally harmless
to do so.
Wave.Dpi * +
This resource specifies the display resolution in dots per inch in the
form `MMxNN', where MM is the horizontal resolution and NN is the vertical
resolution. Normally, the resolution is known to the X server, and it is
unnecessary to specify this resource. If your X server is misinformed,
WAVE's calibrated display scales will be incorrect; the best solution is
to specify the resolution using a server option such as the `-dpi' option
supported by MIT's X11R4 servers, since this will solve problems common
to any other applications that require calibrated scales as well. Sun's
xnews server, however, labors under the delusion that all displays have 83
dots per inch resolution (true only for some 19" monitors) and cannot be
persuaded otherwise, so it is necessary to inform WAVE using this resource
or the `-dpi' command-line option if you are using xnews on any other type
of monitor. The command-line option overrides the resource if both are
specified.
Wave.GraphicsMode * +
This resource specifies the graphics mode used by WAVE; it can be
overridden using the -g, -m, -O, or -S options. The legal values are
1 (monochrome mode), 2 (overlay greyscale mode), 4 (shared color mode), 6
(shared grey mode), and 8 (overlay color mode).
Wave.SignalWindow.{Grey|Color}.{Background|Grid|Cursor|Annotation|Signal}
These resources specify the colors to be used on greyscale or color
displays. The `Color.*' resources are used only if the display is
color-capable and neither greyscale nor monochrome mode has been
specified. The defaults are:
Grey Color
Background white white
Grid grey75 grey75
Cursor grey50 orange red
Annotation grey25 yellow green
Signal black blue
Wave.SignalWindow.Mono.Background
In monochrome mode, the background color is normally white, and all other
colors are normally black. The reverse can be obtained by setting this
resource to `black'. [There is at least one server for which this fails.]
Wave.SignalWindow.{Height_mm|Width_mm} *
These resources specify the preferred dimensions (in millimeters) for the
signal window. The defaults are 120 and 250 respectively. The signal
window can be resized by dragging any of its resize handles using the left
mouse button.
Wave.SignalWindow.Font
This resource specifies the font used to display annotations and time
marks in the signal window. The default is `fixed'.
Wave.TextEditor
This resource specifies the name of the text editor invoked by WAVE to
permit you to edit WAVE's log and analysis menu files. The default is
`textedit' (the OpenLook visual editor). You may override this resource
by using the environment variable EDITOR, which is also used by many other
UNIX applications that invoke editors.
Wave.View.{Subtype|Chan|Num|Aux|Markers|SignalNames|Baselines|Level} *
These resources specify which of the `Show:' options at the top of the
`View' panel are enabled by default; their values are `True' or `False'.
Wave.View.{TimeScale|AmplitudeScale} *
Wave.View.{SignalMode|AnnotationMode|TimeMode|GridMode} *
These resources specify the initial positions of the menu choices in the
corresponding `View' menus, where the top item on each menu is in position
0, the one below it is in position 1, etc. For example, to set the
initial time scale to 50 mm/sec (the item at position 6 in the `Time Scale'
menu), set Wave.View.TimeScale to 6.
Note that WAVE-specific resources cannot be set using the XView `-default'
or `-xrm' options.