User guide

Windows Buttons, Drop Boxes, and Trash Can
The buttons, drop boxes, and trash can on the right side of the Matrix Switchers Control
Program window perform the following functions:
• Power — Unavailable for FOX matrix switchers.
• Rooms menu — Displays a list of up to 10 rooms. You can select a room
from the list to display it in the window.
NOTE: A room is a subset of outputs that the operator logically relate
to each other. The FOX matrix switcher supports up to 10 rooms,
each of which can consist of from 1 to 16 outputs.
• Presets menu — Displays a list of up to 64 global presets and up to
100 room presets (10 rooms x 10 presets per room). You can select a
preset from the list to display it in the window and either activate it (Go) or
delete it (Delete).
• Go — Activates the selected preset as the current configuration.
• Save as ... — Allows the current set of ties to be saved as a preset. Enter
the preset number when prompted to do so.
• Delete — Allows the current preset to be deleted.
• Changes – Take — Allows you to execute any potential changes made to
the displayed configuration.
• Changes – Cancel — Returns to the previous screen, undoing any
changes you have made.
• Trash can — Drag and drop from an input or output button to the trash can to erase all
ties associated with that input or output.
Windows Menus
File menu
• Save Matrix settings as ... — Saves a complete
set of up to 64 presets, rooms, room presets, and preset
names plus the last active setting (preset 0), to a file.
Saved settings include assigned icons and icon captions.
• Restore Matrix settings from ... — Loads and
activates a previously saved setting file.
• Save This-Session’s settings — Saves the
current assigned icons and icon captions.
• Restore Last-Session’s settings — Loads the icons and icon captions that
were saved during the last session. If you saved changes from the previous session to
disk the last time you exited the program, the ties from that session are also loaded.
• Select printer ... — Selects the target printer.
• Print tie map — Prints the tie set that is displayed on the screen.
• Exit — Closes the Matrix Switchers Control Program.
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