<< Click to Display Table of Contents >> Navigation:  Part 2: DeltaGUI Software > Display Configuration Features > Display Configuration Files (XDL files)

When choosing ‘File > Save As’ you have the option of saving a Display Configuration file (choose this in the ‘Files of Type’ dropdown box). This file contains a subset of the current server’s settings, which relate to the display configuration.

You can load an XDL file at any time onto an existing show. This merges the display configuration in the XDL file with the current timeline contents, which allows you to keep display configuration separate from the show.

An XDL file contains:

Display Settings
Canvas size, active channels, channel sizes, timeline length and framerate, geometric mode, display gamma, beams, geometry and softness enable flags.

Background Geometry
Only those geometries on the background layer are saved in an XDL file.

Blends
If present, any blends are saved to the XDL file.

Colour
If present, any colour corrections are saved to the XDL file.

Permanent Geometry

You can specify an XDL file which is loaded after any file load so that the display configuration, point distortion and background geometry, blending and colour is maintained across show files even though this is not saved in each show file.

In DeltaGUI menu: Configure > Preferences > System, browse to the XDL file which is to be loaded each time. This is stored in the registry.

With a permanent XDL file defines, the behaviour of this process is on any file load:

•Load the Show XML file as normal

•Delete any geometry, blends and colour found in frames 0-9 on the background layer

•Merge the XDL file

You can also set the XDL file from external control if you want to swap between different permanent geometry setups:

SETDISPLAYCONFIG "C:\program files\7thsense\delta\setup1.xdl"

or

SETDISPLAYCONFIGALL "C:\program files\7thsense\delta\setup1.xdl"

to set all in that group to the same XDL file.