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S T A R T I N G
A N D
S T O P P I N G
T H E
M E A S U R E M E N T
4 Starting and Stopping the Measurement
When you have successfully setup your databases, you start the
measurement by clicking on the toolbar button
. A dialog window will
Start
pop up asking you whether you want to append new measurements to the
existing result file or if you want to create a new result file. Then, you will
be informed in the status bar, on the bottom of the main window, about the
number of currently active and waiting commands.
The result display is permanently refreshed. If you want to stop this
automatic refresh, click on the toolbar button
Pause Refresh
and to switch
it on again on
. If you want to refresh the display manually
Continue Refresh
click on
Refresh
. Figure 4.1 depicts a typical view of the Control Center
main dialog window after a measurement has run for a while.
Figure 4.1: The OPERA™ Control Center main dialog window.
In order to stop the measurement, wait until no more commands are
scheduled or press on
. Pressing
may take some time since all
Stop
Stop
scheduled commands, active as well as sleeping commands, must be
interrupted which is not possible at all times. Sometimes the OPERA™
Control Center has to wait until a command reaches an interruptible state.
When all commands are stopped, this will be indicated in the status bar of
the main window by the status message "Inactive".
During the measurement all results are written to the file which is indicated
in the title bar of the main dialog window of the OPERA™ Control Center.
Further information about the result file and the result view in the main
dialog you will find in the next section.
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