Instruction manual

SECTION 4. VIEW
4-2 PC208W, Version 3.0, Instruction Manual
PRINTING OPTIONS
Select the
icon to immediately print the
current data file. (If you prefer to set the
margins of a page or perform a print preview
before printing, this can be done through the
File menu.) Press the
icon to bring up a
dialog box to change the font used for the
printer and the display.
ARRAY SELECTION
When a data file is first opened, all arrays in
that file will be displayed. Use the Array
Selection list to pick a single array to be
displayed, graphed, or printed.
TEXT VIEW OPTIONS
There are three icons that can be used to
change the way data is displayed in View.
When the
icon is pressed, the data will be
displayed in hexadecimal format. This is a
toggle button, so if it is pressed again data will
return to ASCII format.
Pressing the
icon will change the data
display from ASCII to tabular. This icon also
acts as a toggle. The tab size can be changed
by typing a number directly into the combo box
or by using the up and down arrows to change
the value. The tab size can be varied from 8 to
20 spaces.
GRAPH VIEW OPTIONS
To view data graphically, you must first select
an array and then select up to two columns of
data (elements) to be graphed. After the first
column is highlighted, hold the control key and
click on the second column to select it.
If the
icon is pressed, both traces will be
graphed on the same Y axis (on the left hand
side of the graph). If the
icon is pressed,
one trace will be graphed on the left axis, and
the other trace will be graphed on the right axis.
By pressing one of the next two icons, you can
choose whether the graph will always be on top,
, or the data file will always be on top, . If
one of these options is selected, you can press
the icon again to return to normal view.
The graphical display includes the four graphing
icons described above, a printer icon,
, and a
icon. When in graph view mode, you can
click on a point to invoke a data label for that
point. You can zoom in on a particular area of a
graph by holding the left mouse button and
dragging the mouse cursor from left to right
over the area to be zoomed. To return to
normal view, hold the mouse button and drag
the cursor from right to left or press the
icon.
Right clicking on the graph will bring up a menu
from which you can choose to preview the
graph before printing, as well a change page
margins, paper orientation, and printer setups
for the graph.
If the data file you are viewing is larger than a
few hundred lines, not all of the data will be
graphed at once. You can scroll through the
data on the graph by using the scroll bar.
Scrolling through the data on the graph will also
scroll through the data in the Data Panel and
vise versa.
ARRAY DEFINITIONS
The
icon on the toolbar is the Array
Definitions icon. You can use this window to
manually assign correct time and date stamps
to a data file, or to change or add an FSL file
association.
When you first click on the Array Definitions
icon, a single column appears. One of the top
lines of this window may read "No array
selected". If you highlight a column in your data
file for the array you want to assign values, View
will automatically assign elements from the
array to the date and time values if they exist
uninterrupted by other elements in the order of
day, time in the data file.
If these elements are not assigned
automatically, you can assign values manually.
Click anywhere in the Year, Day, Time, or
Seconds box, and the window will expand to
two columns. In this second column, you can
choose to assign no element, an element from
the data file, or a fixed value to any of the date
and time values.
FINAL STORAGE LABEL
A final storage label (FSL) file is created by
Edlog when a program is compiled. It provides
information about the output tables in the
program and the labels associated with each
output instruction. The information in this file is
used by View for column headers and to assign
date and time values. To add or change an