Force Editor

Force Editor Windows

The top pane of the application window contains one or more timeline windows. Each timeline window can contain several effects, displayed as rectangular graphs extending over the time the effect is to play. Multiple effects can play simultaneously or in sequence, or they may overlap.

By default the timeline has a length of about 10 seconds. However, by using the Time Scale slider at the bottom of the pane you can compress the amount of time shown in the window, which has the effect of lengthening the timeline. In addition, the timeline is automatically extended whenever you set the end time of a finite effect to a point outside the current extent of the timeline.

The bottom pane of the window tells you what DirectInput is doing as it creates and acquires the device and as it plays and stops effects. This pane also shows any DirectInput errors.