2.1. Configuration

Since version 2.5, there is no further installation required for Windows. Just download the archive, extract it and launch the UncertRadio.exe executable, located in the /bin directory.

2.1.1. Configuration file:

The UR2_cfg.dat file allows some simple adjustments:

UncertRadio configuration
keyword
Explanation

[Path]

path section indicator
Help_path=
(default=UR2_CHM/)
path containing the help files
log_path=
(default=log/)
contains all log_files
results_path=
(default=results/)
contains all results
example_path=
(default=pros/)
all included examples can be found
in this directory

[Local]

Localisation settings
Decimal_point=
(possible values: “,”, “.”)
set the desired decimal point
List_separator=;
(possible values: “;”, “:”)
The character of the list separator
in csv files
Language=DE
(possible values: DE, EN, FR)
Language of UncertRadio
Monitor#=1
(possible values: 0, 1, 2)
select the desired Monitor
ContrastMode=F
(possible values: F, T)
The contrast mode of the program
windows can be activated

The entry “Monitor#=1” was introduced with Version 2.3.08; see the paragraph “Using several monitors” at the end of this section.

After program start, the window can be enlarged. However, with the next action, it turns back to the previous first window size.

2.1.1.1. Country specific parameters

The parameters found in the configuration file UR2_cfg.dat under the item [Local] may be defined as follows.

  1. one may omit the parameter values following the “=” character:

    Decimal_point=

    List_separator=

    Language=

    From this, the values for the decimal point character and the list separator character (for CSV files) are selected:

    DE or FR: comma as decimal point; semicolon as list separator character

    EN: point as decimal point; comma as list separator character

    note: The language which can be selected in the main menu - Options is only temporarily used, i.e., only within the actual program run.

  2. If other specifications are desired, their parameter values can be inserted directly after the “=”-sign in the configuration file. It may be sufficient to insert explicitly only the desired list separator character:

    List_separator=;

  3. The language can also be selected in the dialog of the menu item “Options – Pre-settings” after the program has already been started (but only temporarily; see above). From the language defined there, the characters for decimal point and list separator are determined in the way as described above under a). Additionally, the list separator character can there be selected there explicitly.

  4. For a graphical presentation the decimal point character is determined by the language shortcut DE, EN or FR

2.1.1.2. Choosing the language

The user of UncertRadio can be guided by the program through its various dialogs in the three language. The user can choose between German, English and French. This is controlled via the entry ‘language=’ in the above-mentioned configuration file UR2_cfg.dat, which is read at every program start. The parameter values are:

  • DE for German,

  • EN for English,

  • FR for French.

The language can be switched within the running program with using the dialog “Menu – Options – Pre-settings”. Since Version 2.3.07, this includes also those “GTK stock buttons”, labelled by an icon and text, which previously were translated only after a new program start. This has been achieved by converting all “stock buttons” into normal buttons; the form of the button icons changed, but only slightly. For the more complex GTK file chooser dialog, most items are translated, but not all.

2.1.2. Font and fontsize

UR allows to change the font type and size. The settings are stored in the Settings.ini file:

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = win64
gtk-font-name = Sans Normal 10

Note that the strings to the left of the = characters must not be modified. On starting the UR program the Settings.ini file is loaded. This file shall be part of the UncertRadio.exe path.

For modifying values for gtk-font-name the Fontname Icon of the toolbar can be used.

With the fontname icon fontsize_icon the font type and/or the font size can be modified easily. It has to be considered that by enlarging the font size the program’s window also increases.

With the dialog button “Apply“ a selected fontname is applied to the UR window. If the font is considered acceptable, it can be saved in the file Settings.ini with the dialog button “Save“; this however requires that this fontname had been applied once to the program window. The new fontname will not be saved if this dialog is instead closed by the button “Quit“.

2.1.3. Linking project files (.txp) to UncertRadio.exe

Linking the file type .txp to UncertRadio.exe, can be established as follows in Windows:

  • highlight a txp file, click by the left mouse button “open with” and select “other app”

  • set the check mark and click on “further Apps”

  • scroll down the list of recommended applications

  • click on “search another App on this PC”

  • select the Uncertradio.exe

With the next double click on the txp filename the program should start successfully.

2.1.4. Excel-controlled processing of UncertRadio

The Excel file UR2_SingleAutoRun_V12.xlsm has changed compared to that file used by the previous version by extending the filenames to always include the complete path. A further evaluation button “Start (autosep)” was added; see Section 3.2. The Excel file can be used in the 32-bit as well as the 64-bit versions of MS Office/Excel; see the notes in the introduction part of the VBA module (Modul_Auto_single_UR) within the Excel file.

The VBA module of the Excel file now interprets an UncertRadio exit code which has been introduced with version 2.2.03. An exit code equal to 3 (error occurred during the UncertRadio run) leads to an abortion of the running VBA module.