The Waveform Composer; The Commands Bar - LeCroy PXA125 User Manual

The Waveform
Composer

The Commands bar

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PXA125 from the Command field and the PXA125 will response to
queries in the Response field. The command editor is very useful
while developing your own application. Build your confidence or test
various commands using the command editor. This way you can
assure that commands or syntax that you use in your application will
respond exactly the same way as it responds to the editor commands.
A complete list of SCPI commands is available in Chapter 4 of this
manual.
Being an arbitrary waveform generator, the PXA125 has to be loaded
with waveform data before it can start generating waveforms. The
waveform generation and editing utility is part of ArbConnection and
is called – The Waveform Composer. This program gives you tools to
create definitions for arbitrary waveforms. It can also convert
coordinates from other products, such as, oscilloscopes and use them
directly as waveform data. The program is loaded with many features
and options so use the following paragraphs to learn how to create,
edit and download waveforms to the PXA125 using the Waveform
Composer.
You can invoke the Waveform Composer program from two places:
On the Panels bar click on WAVE, or from the Arbitrary & Sequence
Panel click on "To Wave Composer". Figure 3-14 shows the
waveform composer, immediately after you first invoke this utility.
The Wave Composer has three sections: Commands bar, Toolbar
and Waveform screen. Refer to Figure 3-14 throughout the
description of these parts.
The commands bar provides access to standard Windows commands
such as File and View. In addition, there are ArbConnection-specific
commands such as Edit, Wave and System.
In general, clicking on one of the commands, opens a dialog box with
an additional list of commands. Then, clicking on an additional
command, may open a dialog box, or generate an immediate action.
For example, Clicking on File and then Exit will cause an immediate
termination of the Wave Composer. On the other hand, clicking on
Wave and then on Sine, will open a Sine Wave dialog box that lets
you program and edit sine wave parameters. The various commands
in the Commands bar are listed and described below.
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