User guide

MS-DMT Guide v1.04
Released 05-30-2014
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The “Ruler” display bar is setup to the same font as the message windows and thus allows the
user to keep an eye on their text line length during composition based on the GUI being sized
large enough to display the entire message as the “Ruler” does not scroll at present. The “Ruler”
display can be disabled by double clicking the “Ruler” (then double clicking the transmit window
to re-enable) and right clicking the “Ruler” will enable/disable the 69
th
character marker as seen
below.
The use of a mono spaced font causes each character to take up the same amount of horizontal
space so all characters line up for rapid visual for such things as coded groups to detect any hit
in the message received. Also the zero’s are slashed when the default “Letter Gothic MT Bold”
or other fonts that support slashed zero’s such as Consolas are used.
The Ruler display for the given GUI default size will display a calibrated scale sufficient for a 69
character line length with using “Letter Gothic MT” size 8, the default font. If the optional size
12 font or any custom font is selected the GUI will require resizing. When resized large enough,
depending on the font and size and screen resolution, it can be seen that the Ruler is calibrated
out to 100 characters as seen below, which far exceeds the normal line length used in MARS and
Military communications.
The GUI foot print of the program is completely resizable to full screen and to a reduced
footprint within reason for use on netbooks, tablets and whatever other small or hand held