Chapter 6 Preferences; Setting Preferences; General Preferences; Export Settings - Measurement Computing USB-5100 Series Software Help

Preferences
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Setting Preferences

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Menus
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The Toolbar
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Setting the Language Format on Your Computer
Setting Preferences
You can change the default behavior of USB-5100 Series in the categories listed below. Preference settings are
unique for each user login on your computer. The following categories are available:
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: Configure preferences for Export Settings, Selecting Devices, File Associations, Startup,
General
and Data Encoding.
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Communications
Options.
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: Configure preferences for Fonts, Lines, Value Axis, Layout, Points Table and Details Pane,
Plotting
Gridlines, Plot Setup, Other Options, Undo & Redo.
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: Configure preferences for Default Unit System, Date/Time, and Series.
Display
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Warnings . Configure preferences for various warning types.
To restore default preferences, refer to

General Preferences

Use the General category within Preferences to control a variety of software behavior, including launching,
reading out, opening files, exporting, selecting devices, and more.
To change these settings, complete the following steps:
1. Select
File»Preferences
2. Select General and then click the subcategory you want to change.
3. Adjust any of the settings described below and then click

Export Settings

See Export Settings for information about the preferences in this subcategory.

Selecting Devices

This preference controls when the
window if two or more devices are found, even if one is already selected,
box does display any time more than one device is connected to the computer. This allows you to choose the
device you want to work with any time you select
Device»Stop . If you select
Select Device dialog box does only display the first time you select
That device remains selected until you change it with the Select Device icon
. Configure preferences for Device Types , Serial Ports, Device Speeds, and Other
Restoring Default Preferences.
(Windows) or
USB-5100 Series Software» Preferences
Select Device
Only show Select Device window if a device has not been selected,
OK .
dialog box is displayed. If you select
,
Device»Launch Device»Readout
Launch
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(Macintosh).
Show Select Device
then the dialog
Select Device
, , or
Device»Status
then the
, Readout , Status , or Stop
on the toolbar.
.