Instruction manual

PC208W, Version 3.0, Instruction Manual 4-1
SECTION 4. VIEW
4.1 INTRODUCTION
Pressing the View button on the main tool bar
invokes PC208W’s file viewing program. This
program can be used to look at any data file
collected by PC208W from dataloggers and
storage devices, regardless of the format in
which it was saved (comma separated, binary,
or printable).
Once a file is opened, data can be printed,
graphed, or displayed in ASCII, tabular, or
hexadecimal format. However, since View is
primarily a file viewing utility, a file cannot be
edited or saved using this program.
4.2 MENU ITEMS
All of the tools available in the pull-down menus
can be accessed using the graphical icons.
Each of these icons is explained below.
4.3 ICON ITEMS
Following is a description of the icons that
appear below the menu items. If you move and
hold the mouse pointer over an icon for a few
seconds, a brief text message will pop up that
describes the function that will be performed if
the button is pressed.
FILE OPEN OPTIONS
Select the
icon (first icon) to open a data file.
The default file extension is DAT, but PRN and
CSV files can also be opened in this mode.
(Opening files of types other than these may
cause unexpected results in View.)
When a data file is opened in this mode View
will automatically associate an FSL file with a
matching name if one exists in the active
directory (see Final Storage Label below). If a
matching FSL file does not exist, a box will
appear asking whether or not you want to select
one. When an FSL file is associated with a
data file, View will use column headers and time
stamps from this file when viewing or graphing
an array.
NOTE: View will try to assign a time/date
stamp automatically when opening a data
file. Therefore, it may take a few minutes to
completely open a large file.
Select the icon (second icon) to open a file
in Quick Open mode. In this mode files are not
processed for time stamping. A file opened in
this mode can be viewed only in its original
format or in hex mode. The Array Selection,
Array Definitions, Tab options, and Graph View
options do not work. This mode is most often
used to open files other than data files (or to
quickly open data files, but without any of View's
graphing or time stamping capabilities). In
Quick Open mode, data can be copied to the
Windows clipboard and pasted into other
applications.
File Open
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Printing
Options
Array
Selection
Text View
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Array
Definitions
Graph View
Options