Snapshots - Orthogonal Devices ER-102 User Manual

Snapshots

Snapshots can be saved to and loaded from any of 127 slots: A1 to U7 (for regular
snapshots) and t1 to t9 (for templates). There is a permanent blank snapshot [--]
before A1 and some template snapshots (t1 to t9) before the blank snapshot. Load
the blank snapshot to start with a fresh empty snapshot. Prepare and save template
snapshots for quick startup later on.
After you save a snapshot (such as to the A1 slot in this example) then the file struc-
ture will look like this:
ER-102/
SNAPSHOT/
A1/
LATEST.BIN
R0001.BIN
R0002.BIN
.
.
Each slot has its own subdirectory (named after the slot, A1 through L9) that con-
tains the latest snapshot revision (LATEST.BIN) and all previously saved versions of
the snapshot, numbered according to their revision count (i.e. R0001.BIN, R0002.BIN,
and so on). Everytime you save a snapshot, the slot's revision number is increment-
ed and a new file is created, thus leaving a trail of revisions that can be recalled later.
To help you remember what your snapshots contain, you can also include a rough
description of your snapshot when saving. To access the snapshot description
screen just "focus press" the SNAPSHOT display. Doing this on an empty slot will
show a screen that looks like the figure in the upper right where the revision num-
ber is zero and the description area is filled with hyphens. You can edit the descrip-
tion area (marked in blue in the figure) by pressing any of the display's correspond-
ing focus buttons (multiple presses toggle between the left and right character) and
then using the appropriate knob to scroll through the available characters (0-9, A-Z).
Some characters (like K and X) are not available. In the example on the lower right,
the user has named this snapshot "London Bridge" and indicated that it has 7 parts.
Pressing the LOAD button will save your description along with your snapshot.
Scrolling through the slots and revisions while in the snapshot description screen,
will successively show the descriptions that were saved with each snapshot and its
revisions.
This is how an empty snapshot description looks at first. The red area shows the
current revision number and all of the displays in the blue area can edited at will by
the user to describe the snapshot that is about to be saved in the focused slot.
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