User`s guide

TOOLBAR
The toolbar is displayed across the top of the application window below the menu bar. The toolbar provides
one-button activation for many of the selections listed in the Menu Bar pull-down menus such as
New, Open,
Save, Run and Single/Stop. See the Glossary section for a more detailed explanation of individual buttons.
To hide or display the Toolbar, un-check/check Toolbar in the Display menu.
Calculator, Explorer
and WordPad buttons.
Toggle Marker, New View, Values
on plot and Composite Plot buttons.
Run, Disable All, Single/Stop
and Pulsefind buttons.
New Tool, Open, Save
and Print buttons.
Copy and
Clear buttons.
Record/Stop and
Playback Macro buttons.
Help Topics and Context
Sensitive Help buttons.
Wizard and
Plot Interpreter.
New Tool - Open a new tool in GigaView. Tool buttons will be displayed in place of the Dialog Bar.
Open Tool - Open an existing tool in a new window. Multiple tools can be open at the same time.
Save - Saves the active tool to its current name and directory. When saving a tool for the first time,
GigaView displays the
Save As dialog box. To change the name and directory of an existing tool, choose the Save As command.
Print - Print a tool view. This command presents a Print dialog box, where the range of pages to be printed and the
number of copies may be specified as well as the destination printer and other printer setup options.
Copy - Copy selected data onto the clipboard.
Clear - Clears active window of data.
Run - Repetitively acquire new measurements in active tool. Measurements will be acquired until either the
Single/Stop command is issued or an error occurs.
Disable All - Stops all running windows simultaneously.
Single/Stop - Acquire a single measurement in active tool. Also used to stop current series of measurements
when the Run command is issued.
Pulsefind - Find trip voltages based on current settings.
Record/Stop Macro - Record a series of steps that can then be replayed. See Macro Overview for an in-depth
description of the Macro feature.
Playback Macro - Play back a series of steps that were previously recorded. See Macro Overview for an in-depth
description of the Macro feature.
Toggle Marker Mode - Scrolls through marker selections by displaying current selection on window.
New View - Open a new window with the same contents as the active window. You can open multiple tool windows to
display different parts or views of a tool at the same time. If you change the contents in one window, all
other windows containing the same tool reflect those changes. When you open a new window, it becomes
the active window and is displayed on top of all other open windows.
Values on Plot - Provides option of displaying all or select measurement data in text format in the active tool window.
Composite Plot - Used to overlay various plots which relate to each other. The plots must be of the same plot type.
Calculator - Activates calculator.
Windows Explorer - Activates Windows Explorer feature of operating system.
Wordpad - Activates Wordpad for text editing.
Help Topics - Opens the online Help system.
Help Wizard - Activates Help Wizard
Plot Interpreter - Activates Plot Interpreter
Context Sensitive Help - Activates context sensitive help. Once activated, the cursor changes to the Context
Sensitive Help icon and will remain so until another click of the pointing device occurs.
Upon clicking the second time, Help text will be displayed.
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