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The "TX" button switches the transmitter on. The program transmits chars entered into the bottom window. During transmission, chars move from that window into the Sent Symbols window (upper window). Chars sent by paddle are shown in upper window also.

The "Pause" button stops typed symbols transmission. Transmitter is left on and you can send symbols via paddle yet.

In top left-hand corner are regulators of speed, dash/dot ratio and inter-letter space.
If inter-letter space regulator value is below than dash length, inter-letter space is defined by dash/dot value. Resultant transmitting speed is shown in status line in LPM (letters per minute) and WPM (words per minute). Speed is calculated by "PARIS" method. Hotkeys for speed regulator are
Alt-gray plus or Ctrl-gray-plus and Alt-gray minus or Ctrl-gray minus.

In top right hand corner is the speaker on/off button. Speaker tone is defined by value of the SpeakerTone parameter of the CWTYPE.INI file. This value is sound frequency in Hz.

The "Setup->MOX On" command switches on MOX mode (automatic TX on/off). MOX details are configured by the "Setup->MOX Setup" menu.

When the "Setup->Pause On at paddle press" option is selected, a paddle pressing switches on the "Pause" mode.

When "Setup->Pause Off at Tx Off" option is selected, the "Pause" mode is switched of after transmitter off.

The "F1"..."F12" buttons (and "F1"..."F12" keyboard keys) are used to transmit previously defined macros. You can use "Esc" key and Ctrl-F1...Ctrl-F12, Alt-F1...Alt-F12 combinations also. The Alt-F6 combination is available only via mouse. Macros are inserted into the Input window in a place indicated by the cursor. A number of macro buttons can be increased by the
"Setup->Two Macro Buttons Row" or "Setup->Three Macro Buttons Row" menu command.
To open the Edit Macros window, select the "Setup->Edit macros" menu. You can edit text on macros buttons there also. In turn, keyboard macros may contain special character sequences or macrosequences.

In particular, macrosequences can point to edit fields "Call", "Name", "RST" and "Other" located above the Sent Symbols window. The "Clear" button sets those fields to their default values. The default values are defined by parameters "CallOnClear", "RSTOnClear", "NameOnClear", "OtherOnClear" of the CWTYPE.INI file.

The "Beacon" button switch on beacon mode. In this mode Alt-F12 macro is executed periodically. The period in seconds is defined by the regulator on the left of the "Beacon" button. The shortcuts for "Beacon" button are Alt-B and Ctrl-B.
If the "Setup->Beacon Off at Paddle Press" option is enabled, beacon mode is switched off when a paddle pressed. Special macrosequences can be used to switch beacon mode on and off also.

The "File->Send Text File" puts text from selected file into the Input window. That text can contain macrosequences also.

The "File->Open Capture File" menu opens a capture-file for sent symbols. Then new sent symbols are being wrote into that file. If the file exist, new symbols are appended to it.
The "File->Close Capture File" command closes a capture-file. Capture-file state is shown in the status line. The hotkey for capture on/off commands is Alt-L. You can use command line arguments "/c Filename" to open capture file at the program startup. "Filename" is name of the file to be opened.

The menu options "Setup->English Charset", "Setup->Russian Charset",
"Setup->Swedish Charset" and "Setup->User-defined Charset" select used alphabet. In last case a charset is defined by simple text file. See example in SAMPLE.CWT file.

Fonts and colors are selected by menus "Setup->Tx Window Font Setup",
"Setup->Tx Window Background Setup" etc.

The "Setup-> Always On Top" menu option puts CwType in front of all windows.

The "Setup->Iambic Mode" menu option switch on the "Iambic" mode (the memory of a unit of a symbol) of paddle handling.

The program can transfer data to AALog logger (V1.0.3 and later). Data are transferred from "Call", "RST" or "Name" edit field after exiting from it. In turn, "Call" and "Name" edit fields can receive data from the CwGet program.

Selected options of the program are saved via the "Setup->Save Setup" menu. Options are written into the file CWTYPE.INI . The program looks for this file in the working directory. You can have several variants of the ini-file for different situations (for example, one for ordinary QSO's, and another for contests). Just create several shortcuts to CWTYPE.EXE each with a different working directory.

Most of the screen buttons have keyboard shortcuts.

CwType interfaces with logger software via ini-files and Windows messages. CwType can get symbols to transmit from another software by DXSOFTEX.DLL library also. See http://www.dxsoft.com/dxs-exch.zip for details about programs co-operation.