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Chapter 3 Getting Started
3.1.2 Button Bar
The Button Bar, located on the bottom of the screen, contains "buttons" used to operate the unit. When the
unit is powered up, the Main Button Bar is shown (see Figure 3-3). The Main Button Bar has four buttons:
VIEW, BROWS, JOG and MENU. The date and time are continuously displayed in the middle of the Main
Button Bar. The date is shown numerically in either American (Month/Day/Year) or (European Day/Month/
Year) format. Refer to Section 5.4.2 to program the date format.
3.1.2.1 VIEW Button
The VIEW button enables the user to scroll through the selectable display options in the Graphics Area
of the screen (see Section 5.4.7). These views might be charts, bar graphs, digital windows, alarm/event
information or combinations of these. Each time the VIEW button is pressed, the next view is presented.
3.1.2.2 BROWSE Button
The BROWSe button is only displayed on screen views that can actually be browsed, which are the full
screen Trend Chart Window and the full screen Alarm/Event Data Window. The user can choose to browse
RAM (Random Access Memory) which is the screen trace data, or FILE, in which case a file menu will be
presented so that the user can choose a file from the disk/card. The BROWSe button also allows the user
to SEARCH historic data by VALUE or TIME, as well as COMPRESS data in time.
Pressing the BROWSe button puts a freeze on the real time display and allows the user to scroll back in
time to browse through historical data that has passed off the screen or has been recorded previously, even
on another machine. The actual Chart screen browse buffer is dependent on the memory options installed,
the number of traces being displayed and the effective Chart speed. With the standard buffer, a Chart
speed of one inch per hour with four traces active, it is possible to browse back approximately 140 hours
(5½ days). The user may choose to browse files on the disk/card rather than the current memory buffer even
though the unit is currently recording. The user can then browse files that had been recorded earlier, or may
even browse the file that is currently being recorded. Once the data has been recorded to disk/card, it is
possible to use the file browser or the PC and the optional Companion Software to view data as far back as the
start of recording, irrespective of how long that may be, within the constraints of disk/card capacity.
3.1.2.3 JOG Button
The JOG button is used to switch between channel data. At any time the user can press the JOG
button to display point data in the Status Line. Each time the JOG button is pressed the next point
data is displayed.
3.1.2.4 MENU Button
When the MENU Button is pressed, the Command Menu Button Bar appears (see Figure 3-4) allowing
the user to change DISPLay features, PROGram the unit and set FUNCtions. Refer to Chapters 4 and 5
for details.
The Button Bar will change depending on the mode and the buttons pressed. Certain key buttons will always
be displayed in the same place, such as the ENTER Button on the left and the EXIT button on the right,
allowing rapid movement through menus.
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Figure 3-3 Main Button Bar
Figure 3-4 The Command Menu Button Bar
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