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5.9
Time Navigation and Synchronization
When having loaded signals and their data from a measure file, it is usually
necessary to navigate to a specific time segment. This can easily be done by
zooming and scrolling through the entire time range. To keep the overview
even in case of many signals, it is often useful to distribute data to different
instruments. But sometimes these data need to be monitored in parallel to
identify root causes for unexpected observations or to document correlations.
Then, a simple synchronization method for combined zooming and scrolling in
different instruments is needed. All these zooming, scrolling, and syn-
chronization activities can be done with the time slider in each instrument.
The time slider displays the complete time range of all measure files assigned
to the current configuration. If you add a new measure file into the con-
figuration, the minimum and maximum time sample of the time slider are auto-
matically updated.
The time slider differs depending on the instrument type and its corresponding
scale. The instrument types can be classified as follows:
Instrument Type Variable Scale Fixed Scale
Event List
GPS Map
Oscilloscope
Scatter Plot
Statistical Data
Table
Video
Time slider in instruments with variable scale
The time slider can display any arbitrarily chosen section of the complete time
range. Thus, the time slider can be used for zooming, scrolling, and syn-
chronization. The exact start and end time of the displayed time range is
shown in tooltips. The number of decimals shown in the tooltips depends on
the zooming level. To change the values in the tooltips, see "To enter an exact
value for the time range" on page 123.
To get a sufficient size and an accurate reporting of the relative position of the
currently visible time range at a high amount of zoom, the time slider auto-
matically switches into the magnifier mode.
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