FrqEd Custom Database Editor
for the Spooky2 custom database
FrqEd (pronouced freaked) is a custom database editor for Spooky2 frequency sets. It can create a database, edit an existing database, merge databases, and search the Spooky2 frequency database and add Spooky2’s frequency sets to your custom frequency set. While Spooky2 already provides much of this functionality via the CSVed application, CSVed is cumbersome and difficult to use as it has no specific knowledge of the Spooky2 database parameters.
FrqEd is delivered inside of a zip archive. Extract all the files out of the zip archive in a folder of your choosing. Then double-click frqed.html in the Windows Explorer/File Explorer.
When you open frqed.html, FrqEd starts with an empty Database Editor. The Database Editor has the following buttons:
The first button on the left is the Undo button. Undo undoes your last edit or operation in the Database Editor. Use the Undo operation to reverse or undo multiple edits you make to the database.
Next is the Redo button. Redo undoes an undo operation. If you’ve applied multiple undo operations, and you realize that undo was a mistake, you can step through the edit you’ve undone and redo those edit.
The New button creates a temporary empty frequency set, and opens the Frequency Set Editor with this new frequency set.
The Open Database button opens a database that is showing next to the Browse… button. Before you can open a database, choose a custom .csv database file using the Browse… button. With various browsers, the label on the Browse… button may vary, as shown below:
Browser | Browse… button |
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Once you open a database, it’s frequency sets are displayed below.
The icon buttons on the right side of each frequency set do the following:
“Move to top” moves the current frequency set to the top of the database.
“Move up” moves the current frequency set up one place.
“Move down” moves the current frequency set down one place.
“Move to bottom” moves the current frequency set to the bottom of the database.
“Edit” edits the frequency set.
“Duplicate” creates a copy of the frequency set.
“Delete” deletes frequency set.
“Save” opens the Save Dialog.
The Save Dialog has the following form elements:
“Import...” opens the Import Dialog.
The Import Dialog has the following form elements:
Clicking “New” or
“Edit” in the Database Editor opens the Frequency Set Editor.
Many of the icon buttons in the Frequency Set Editor are the same as found in the Database Editor. The icon buttons at the top the editor operate on the current frequency set, the icon buttons below operate on an individual frequency. The buttons at the top of the window do the following:
“Undo” undoes your last edit or operation in the Frequency Set Editor.
“Redo” undoes an undo operation.
“New” creates a temporary empty frequency , and opens the Frequency Editor with this new frequency.
“Search” opens the Search Dialog, where you can search the Spooky2 database and append it’s sets to your custom frequency set.
“Cancel” discards your changes and returns you to the Database Editor.
“OK” accepts your changes into the current frequency set and returns you to the Database Editor.
Below the icon buttons are editable properties for the current frequency set. These properties include:
“Name” is the name of the frequency set.
“Dwell” is the optional default dwell for the frequency set.
“Sub DB” is the sub database for your frequency set. Normally you only use “CUST” unless you enter in a frequency set from another database.
“Comment” is the optional comment or instructions for your frequency set.
“Frequencies” are the frequencies of the frequency set. This field displays the same information as the list of frequencies below the form. Beginner users need not use this field, as the edits to the frequency set can be made using the list of frequencies below this form. Advanced users can enter values into this field, using the same codes that are found in the Frequencies text field of the “Create Frequency Set” dialog of Spooky2.
At the right of each of the frequencies in the frequency set are the following icon buttons:
“Move to top” moves the current frequency to the top of the frequency set.
“Move up” moves the current frequency up one place.
“Move down” moves the current frequency down one place.
“Move to bottom” moves the current frequency to the bottom of the frequency set.
“Edit” edits the frequency.
“Duplicate” creates a copy of the frequency.
“Delete” deletes the frequency.
Clicking “Search” in the Frequency Set Editor opens the Search Dialog.
The Search Dialog has the following form elements:
Clicking “New” or
“Edit” in the Frequency Set Editor opens the Frequency Editor.
The buttons at the top of the Frequency Editor do the following:
“Undo” undoes your last edit or operation in the Frequency Editor.
“Redo” undoes an undo operation.
“Cancel” discards your changes and returns you to the Frequency Set Editor.
“OK” accepts your changes into the current frequency and returns you to the Frequency Set Editor.
Below the icon buttons are editable properties for the current frequency. These properties include:
In this tutorial we create a new database called My Frequencies.csv, with a frequency set Test1 with frequencies 1 Hz and 2Hz, and frequency set Test2 with a dwell of 300 seconds, containing frequencies 3 Hz with Sine wave, and a sweep 4-10 Hz with Square wave and offset 100%.
For the advanced users, steps 3 through 19 of the above tutorial can be made in far few operations. Here are those operations (starting from Step 3):
In this tutorial we merge two different databases to create new.csv. In the frqed.zip archive are two database files, tutorial_import_1.csv and tutorial_import_2.csv.