Program Additional Settings
Click the button in the lower right corner of the main Settings window
The additional settings window will appear
Settings
Shows the location of all program Settings files, opens Explorer to the Settings directory
When updating the program, previous Settings are preserved and imported automatically
The forced import/export Settings functions are useful for transferring settings from computer to computer
For example, film printer or overlay settings
Transferring Settings to Another Computer
- Click the Export button
- Click the checkboxes for the settings you want to transfer
- Click the Ok button and specify the location to save the settings file
- Transfer the settings file to another computer
- Launch VDV on the other computer, open Settings/Additional
- Click the Import button, specify the Settings file
- The settings from the file will be loaded into the program on the other computer
Logging
Manual Editing of the Main Program Settings File
- Click
next to the Program Settings file path
- Edit it manually
- For more information on the logging settings file syntax, see
http://log4cpp.sourceforge.net
- For the settings to take effect, a program restart is required
Setting Debug Mode
Debug mode is necessary only in case of program malfunctions, to send log files to PO Vidar LLC programmers
By default, debug mode is disabled
- Click the
button
- Click the "Debug mode: DEBUG" item in the appeared list
- Click the "OK" button, then - the "Save" button in the main Program Settings window, restart the program
Now all manipulations in the program will be saved in log files
Note:
If DEBUG mode is set for program debugging purposes, don't forget to return it to "Debug disabled" after finishing information collection!
Otherwise, the log file size will be very large
In Case of Program Malfunctions:
- Preparing to send a log file:
- Switch to "Debug mode: DEBUG", as described above
Don't forget to restart the program!
- Repeat in the program the actions that led to the errors
- Saving the log file:
- In the program menu, click sequentially: Help - Save log files...
or
- Go back to this Additional Settings window
- Click the
button next to the "Log files" item
- Choose the location for the archive with log files and remember it
- Sending the log file
- Send the obtained zip file to med@povidar.ru along with a description of the problem
PO Vidar LLC programmers will try to solve the problem as soon as possible
Associations
Click the Associate with Dicom files for the current user button to register the program as a handler for *.dcm files (for the current user)
MPR
Click the button to enable the MPR debug service mode
For engineers only!
Encodings
Allows changing default encodings when text is displayed incorrectly
Save Window Positions
Remembers the position and size of all windows in the program, similar to Configuring Window Sizes and Positions
Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L
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