Pinnacle Speakers DEKO500 - Manual (Page 184)

Glossary 182
Deko500 User’s Guide
The safe title area is only a reference; it does not prevent typing
outside its boundaries.
You can specify the top, bottom, right and left boundaries of the
safe title area. Values represent a percentage of the distance from
the specified edge of the screen to the opposite edge.
The text field box defaults to the dimensions of the safe title area.
screen space
Screen location is indicated on the status bar, expressed as either
world space or screen space.
World space, or resolution-independent space, is measured in
arbitrary units, selected by the user.
Screen space is a literal representation of the video frame buffer.
Screen space varies with the video standard: in NTSC 4x3, there
are 720 horizontal pizels (called dots) and 486 vertical pixels
(called lines). These values can be found in @dots and @lines.
In Options/Preferences, choose Cursor Movement by Pixels for
screen space.
screen units
Screen units are the units Deko500 uses for the height of a typeface
and for the location of text and shapes in a graphic.
Screen units are user-definable, in Options/Preferences/Advanced/
Resolution. Once you set the number of vertical units, the number
of horizontal units is automatically set to 4/3 of that amount.
For convenience, the default value for screen units is 486 in NTSC
and 576 in PAL, which equals the number of visible scan lines in
each video standard.
search path
If Deko500 does not find a file in a current directory, it searches
each directory in the appropriate search path. There are three
different search paths based on file type:
graphics (.dko), sequences (.seq), automation (.aut)
styles (.sty), preset styles (.pst), shaders (.shd)
macros (.mcr)
selection cursor
The selection cursor is used for pointing to objects on the desktop
and clicking or dragging them.
sequence
A sequence is a list of events that controls the playback of a series
of Deko500 graphic files.