User`s guide

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6 Analyzin
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Waveforms in Probe
Settin
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Up Probe
Confi
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Probe Colors
You can configure Probe display and print colors in:
• the configuration file, msim.ini, and
• the Probe Options dialog box.
Editin
g
displa
y
and print colors in the msim.ini
file
In the msim.ini file, you can control the following print and
display color settings:
• the colors that Probe uses to display traces
• the colors that Probe uses for the plot window foreground
and background
• the order that Probe uses colors to display traces
• the number of colors that Probe uses to display traces
To edit displa
y
and print colors in the msim.ini file
Note
After editin
g
the msim.ini file, you must restart
Probe before your chan
g
es will take effect.
1
Using MicroSim Text Editor (or any other text editor), open
the
msim.ini file.
2
Scroll to the [
PROBE DISPLAY COLORS] or
[
PROBE PRINTER COLORS] section of the file.
3
Add or modify a color entry. See Table 17-1 on page 17-7
for a description of color entries and their default values.
Valid item names include:
• BACKGROUND
• FOREGROUND
• TRACE_1
through TRACE_12
You can over-ride the color
confi
g
uration you set here for
traces by assi
g
nin
g
colors to
markers in Schematics. For
more information, see
Using
Schematic Markers to Add
Traces on page 17-13.
For information on how to use
the available colors and color
order in a Probe plot window,
see
Configuring trace color
schemes on page 17-8.
Colors for all items are specified
as
<item name>=<color>
. The item
names and what they represent
are listed in Table 17-1.
Here are the color names you
can specify:
black blue brightblue
brightcyan brightgreen brightmagenta
brightred brightwhite brightyellow
brown cyan darkblue
darkcyan darkgray darkgreen
darkmagenta darkpink darkred
green lightblue lightgray
lightgreen magenta mustard
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