Dialogs

These dialogs will only appear after the menu item has been clicked. Some are modal, meaning they block the editor, and others are not.

Paragraph Affix Dialog

Used to add and set paragraph affixes. Takes a dict of affixes defined for styles, and a list of all styles from the style file.

This dialog is modal.

See how to add automatic paragraph affixes.

Field Dialog

Used to add and set fields. Takes a dict containing all field names and values for the document.

This dialog is modal.

See how to define and insert a user field.

Shortcut Editor Dialog

Used to set shortcuts for each menu item. Takes two lists, one of the text for each menu item, and the other the objectName of the menu item.

This dialog is modal.

See how to set custom shortcuts for menu items

Index Editing Dialog

Used to create indexes, setting prefixes and visibility + add entries and descriptions for each index. Also adds

This dialog is non-modal.

See how to insert index entries.

Caption Dialog

Used to set parameters for caption display and host endpoint for remote captions.

This dialog is modal.

See how to set up and display captions

Suggestion Dialog

Used to analyze transcript for common phrases and words that can then be added to the transcript dictionary.

This dialog is non-modal.

See how to generate suggestions from transcript.

Audio Recording Settings Dialog

Used to set parameters for audio recording on computer.

  • Input Device: Choices will be any audio inputs available to the computer such as a microphone. If the computer has a microphone, and the headphone also has mic input, these will be different choices in the menu.

  • File Container: Choose the file container (type) desired. Choose this before selecting an audio codec.

  • Audio Codec: The audio codec available will depend on the file container chosen. For some container types, such as FLAC, the only codec will be FLAC. Others, such as MP4 will have multiple codecs available.

  • Sample Rate and Channels can be left on default, and the software will pick the best fit.

  • Encoding Mode

    • Constant Quality: The recording will be done based on the quality slider, varying the bitrate to keep the same quality.

    • Constant Bitrate: The recording will use the same bitrate throughout, but quality of the recording will vary.

By default, the audio recording is saved into the audio folder.

See how to set up and start audio recording, and relevant playback settings in how to skip forward and back in an media file, how to set up a time offset for syncing with writing.