Harmonic helper resolution

[Gerr]

Hi Sigblip,

I recently found the following - potentially buggy - behaviour in the
harmonic helper bars:

When in the main window, I press the middle mouse button and the
harmonic helper bars appear. When moving the mouse, the vertical line
on the mousecursor is moved, and the frequency displayed in the bottom
right is updated. For fine tuning, the arrow keys can be used, but it
seems that the frequency display is only updated if the 'active'
helper bar moves a pixel or more on the screen. When measuring
frequenicies in the lower range, finetuning with the arrow keys only
moves the bar a fraction of a pixel, and the frequency is not updated
and can thus not be read out.

Is this behaviour as designed ?

Thanks again for the great tool !

_Gert

[Sig Blip]

Yes, this is the expected behavior when using the arrow keys to fine
tune the harmonic helper bars. I agree that this behavior isn't ideal
and it is planned to be fixed in a future version of baudline. I
recommend you check out the delta selected measurement window:

http://www.baudline.com/manual/measurements.html#delta_selected

It works nicely with the harmonic / periodic helper bars and it will
report the fine tuned Hz values you requested. The delta selected
measurement window also has the advantage of holding the previous
value when you let go of the mouse. Note that the number of
measurement digits can be changed for even more resolution. It's a
handy window for other sorts of manual measurements too. Check it
out.