PLAYBAR is the heart of JAGUAR, showing the progress of the playback. The length of each playback file is adjusted to cover the full screen width, and you can jump to the desired time point by clicking on PLAYBAR. The playback of a recorded file ("ARCHIVE MODE") and the playback when connected to the Perseus hardware ("LIVE MODE") are displayed in an almost identical way (Perseus playback uses a buffer file). More details can be found in the ARCHIVE MODE and LIVE MODE helps.
The progress bar color can be:
JAGUAR supports two main "scrolling modes" when the mouse is over PLAYBAR: TIME SCROLL and FREQ SCROLL.
When the active scrolling mode is FREQ SCROLL, the frequency portion of PLAYBAR is surrounded by "(( XXX ))", and the scrolling function changes the nominal frequencies based on the selected frequency-stepping.
When the active scrolling mode is TIME SCROLL, the frequency portion of PLAYBAR shows the exact offset played as "XXX.XXXX", and the scrolling function changes the time instead of the frequency.
A small triangle below PLAYBAR shows the exact position of a TOH (top-of-the-hour) / BOT (bottom-of-the-hour) if such is included in the playback/buffer file. JAGUAR tries to keep the TOH position centered at the display, in these cases you'll also have a colored area ("the ID area").
Further, PLAYBAR supports some special functions as described below.
The scrolling modes FREQ SCROLL and TIME SCROLL can be toggled by pressing the "z" key. Alternatively, you can toggle them by clicking TOOLBAR > "(( ))" icon (the FREQ SCROLL icon).
You can also temporarily always override the TIME SCROLL mode by moving the mouse over the frequency: "XXX.XXXX" will change to "(( XXX ))", and you can scroll the frequencies (with the mouse wheel or left/right arrow keys) as long as the mouse is positioned over the frequency display.
If you work with other applications at the same time while listening to JAGUAR, the focus of the keyboard / mouse wheel is then often reserved by some other application. You can put the focus back to JAGUAR in the standard Windows way (for example, by pressing ALT-TAB). If PLAYBAR is visible, you can also just move the mouse over PLAYBAR's frequency display, and JAGUAR will steal the focus for the keyboard / mouse wheel automatically.
The little triangles at the both ends of PLAYBAR can be clicked to jump to the previous/next file (in the LIVE mode only to the previous file). When the mouse cursor is over that triangle, you can scroll the files very quickly using the mouse wheel and/or the left/right arrow keys.