4 Program use and personal configuration
SetEdit405 is mostly used with the mouse. You can also reach many functions with keyboard shortcuts.

On the main window you will find a group of buttons for the general functions ("File", "Config." and "Help") and the lists that contain the transponders, satellites, favourite lists (FAV) and the channels. If you hit the right mouse button in the satellite, transponder, favourite or one of the channel lists you will get a popup menu with the specific functions for this list.
With "Help" you can open the help file, get some information about you SetEdit editor, open your SetEdit directory or look for updates of SetEdit.
In some frames you find uppercase letters. If you click on these letters you can change some viewing modes.
You can close every window that comes in SetEdit405 (except the main window) with the Esc-key on your keyboard.
In some lists you may find the following red symbols. These symbols indicate:
Scrambled channels
Locked channels
Skipped channels
HD channels
DVB-S transponders (satellite)
DVB-S2 transponders (HD)
Unwanted channels (Wish lists)
Extra channels (Wish lists)
Not found channels (Wish lists)
New channels (Wish lists)
If a channel or transponder name is marked red there is a duplicate of this channel or transponder in the settings.
Transponders marked in red are empty; they contain no channels.
TV channels appear in light blue, radio channels in light green.
If a channel or transponder is shown with light grey font colour, it's an unwanted or not found channel or transponder (see chapter 3.k).
Channels that are in a FAV list are marked in the channel list with a darker background colour.
If the channel number is marked with a red background colour, the channel is assigned to a vertical or right hand circular polarised transponder. If the channel number has a white background colour, the channel is assigned to a horizontal or left hand circular polarised transponder.
If a satellite has a green background colour, it is activated, which means there are already channels on this satellite.
When you select a channel, the transponder, the satellite and the favourite list (if the channel is in a favourite list) are marked with a different colour.
You can change all colours in the configuration menu.
In the lower left corner you will find an "Information" section, where you see the parameters of a selected transponder or channel.

When you select a satellite in the satellite list only the transponders and channels that are in that satellite are shown. When you click in a transponder or favourite list only the channels that are in this list are shown.
You can adapt the design of SetEdit405 to your personal wishes.
To change the size of the main window you can either click on the maximise button in the upper right corner or drag one of the margins of the window.
If the main window is large enough, the channel lists can be shown in more than one column. Then you have more channels in view. You can change the width of these columns in the configuration menu on the tab sheet "General settings". In the section "Column width" you can enter if a new column is created, when 100% (auto) or 90-30% of the channels are shown completely. The other channel names are cut.

With "manual" you can enter the column width by hand. Select the function "Setup column width" from the menu of the channel lists and then you can click on the position where you want to have the right border of the first column.
Note: There is a minimum width for the columns. If the window is too small to show more than one column the column width has no effect.
In the section "Cut names" you can enter if the channel name is cut at the end,

or if a part of the channel name is cut from the middle.

In the configuration on the tab sheet "General settings" you can change the menu language of SetEdit (this concerns all opened SetEdit windows) and specify whether the PIDs are shown in decimal or hexadecimal form (see chapter 8).
To get more columns in the window, you can enter that the channel names are shown in their short mode (see chapter 3.d).
If you activate on the same tab sheet the option "Show channel count in lists" the number of channels of each satellite, transponder and each FAV list is shown behind the name of this list.
Especially when you want to move channels from the beginning to the end of your list, it may be useful to use the split function. With this function you can split your list into two parts, one showing the beginning and the other showing the end of your settings (see chapter 3.b.)
With a double-click on the frame "TV channels" or "Radio channels" only the choosen channel list is shown. With another double-click on this frame both lists are shown again. With the "show" function of the menu of the channel list you have also the possibility to choose, if you only want to see the TV, the radio channels, or both channel types.
You can also change the viewing mode of the PIDs, if you click on the letters "H" for hexadecimal or "D" for decimal in the frame of the "Information" section.
For some functions you also have shortcuts for keyboard using:
Ctrl-O: Open a settings file
Ctrl-S: Save settings
Ctrl-R: Read settings from the receiver
Ctrl-W: Write settings into the receiver
Ctrl-P: Print settings
Ctrl-E: Export settings
Alt-R: Show only radio channels
Alt-T: Show only TV channels
To close a SetEdit window please click on the "close" button:

or select "Close" from the "File" menu. If only one editor window is opened you close the complete program.
If you select "Exit" from the "File" menu all open editor windows are closed. In the configuration you can enter with "Restore last session when starting" that all opened editor windows are restored when you start the program the next time.
When you like to use this function you have to finish from SetEdit with the "File" -> "Exit" function. If you close all windows one by one only the last opened window will be restored.
Note: If you have unsaved changes you are asked if you want to exit or first save these changes.
Continue with File functions.
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