User Guide

Chapter 13 Analyzing waveforms
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Setting up waveform analysis
Setting up colors
You can configure Probe display and print colors in:
• The configuration file, PSPICE.INI
• The Probe Options dialog box
Editing display and print colors in the PSPICE.INI
file
In the PSPICE.INI file, you can control the following print
and display color settings for Probe windows:
• The colors used to display traces
• The colors used for the Probe window foreground and
background
• The order colors are used to display traces
• The number of colors used to display traces
To edit display and print colors in the PSPICE.INI file
Note
After editing PSPICE.INI, you must restart PSpice before your
changes will take effect.
1 In a standard text editor (such as Notepad), open
PSPICE.INI. (This file is normally located in the
C:\Windows directory.)
2 Scroll to the [PROBE DISPLAY COLORS] or
[PROBE PRINTER COLORS] section of the file.
3 Add or modify a color entry. See Table 1 on
page 13-325 for a description of color entries and their
default values. Valid item names include:
•
BACKGROUND
•
FOREGROUND
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colors and color order in a Probe window,
see Configuring trace color
schemes on page 13-326
.
Colors for all items are specified as
<item name>=<color>
. The item names
and what they represent are listed in
Table1.
Here are the color names you can specify:
brightcyan brightblue
brightgreen brightred
brightmagenta
brightwhite
brightyellow darkblue
darkcyan darkgray darkgreen
darkmagenta darkred
darkpink
lightgreen
lightblue lightgray green
magenta mustard orange
pink purple red
brown blue cyan
white black yellow
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