Display Optimization

Thanks to Irad and everyone else involved in the VarAC project for providing such a great communications mechanism. The combination of technical functionality and user experience is excellent.

I like to operate portable and since my CW skills have long since atrophied, digital modes, and now VarAC as my favorite for portable operation, are a great alternative to CW to enable running lower power with simple antennas.

At home where I run an SDR radio, I have two large monitors with one allocated to the SDR display and the other to VARA and VarAC. I tend to focus on the SDR display when not connected and the VARA display after connecting.

Although my laptop used for portable operation supports 1920 x 1080 HD and my portable radio doesn't require an SDR display, fitting the VarAC and VARA windows onto a laptop monitor makes for challenging reading for my old eyes. Based on the popularity of laptops as a primary computer, this issue is not limited to portable use. For many laptops without an HD display, simultaneous display of VarAC and VARA is not possible

Since Windows enables everything on a monitor to be scaled, it is possible to increase the size of both the VARA and VarAC windows. However, whether the VARA and VarAC windows are placed side-by-side or one on top of the other, the two windows extend to the vertical or horizontal limits on an HD monitor

Is it possible for VarAC to replicate some of all of the VARA information? If only needing to display a VarAC window containing VARA information, the size of the VarAC window could be scaled to better fit a monitor or laptop display. If the VARA waterfall can't be replicated, the VarAC window could overlay most of the VARA window but still expose the VARA waterfall at the bottom of the VARA window.