The View menu

The items on the View menu:

 

Timeline

Shows or hides the Timeline.

 

Frame bar

Shows or hides the Frame bar

 

Status bar

Shows or hides the Status bar

 

Toolbars

There are 4 sub-items on this menu item to show or hide the Edit, File, Player and Clipping toolbars.

 

Timeline Units

There are 2 sub-items on this menu item to select the units displayed in the Timeline: seconds or frames.

 

Timeline thumbnail

Selects the size of the thumbnail movie frame displayed when the mouse is over the timeline or frame bar.  

 

KeyBar mode

Selects between 2 modes of displaying the keystrokes:

  • Raw: shows every keystroke in the frame it occurred.

  • Sentence: groups keystrokes together as words

 

 

 

 

Movie Size

The sub-items on this menu item control the displayed size of the movie:

  • 25%-100%: By default a movie will be displayed at 100% - the original size. It can be shown at a smaller size by selecting an option of less than 100%.

  • Other: This option shows a dialog box where you can enter any percentage size for the movie to be displayed at.

  • Fit Movie to Window: Select this option to increase or decrease the size of the movie to fit into the BB FlashBack Player window as it is currently sized.

  • Fit Window to Movie: Select this option to increase or decrease the size of the BB FlashBack Player window so that it fits to the current size of the movie.

 

Full Screen

Selecting this option to have the movie area occupy the entire Windows desktop, with the toolbar positioned above it. All other parts of the Player interface are hidden.

 

 

 

 

Highlight mouse clicks

Mouse clicks in the movie can be emphasised by a short cursor animation.

 

 

Auto-scroll

There are 3 options in the Auto Scroll submenu:

  • None: Select this to turn Auto-scrolling off. If the movie is larger than the movie area, you may need to scroll manually to see everything of interest.

  • Mouse in center: Select this to have BBFlashBack scroll the movie area to keep the mouse in the center.

  • Mouse near center: Select this to have BB FlashBack scroll the movie area to keep the mouse near the center.

 

View PC information

Movie files recorded by BB TestAssistant include information about the PC that recorded the movie. Select this menu item to see that information.

 

View external log files

Displays logfiles generated by external programs - only available for movie files recorded by BB TestAssistant.