Al though the 2700 se ries pan els can all be placed on one workspace page,
most us ers pre fer to or ga nize their workspace by plac ing pan els on sev eral dif -
fer ent pages.
You can close a panel with out can cel ing its func tion or ef fect; for ex am ple,
you could set a sig nal’s out put volt age and fre quency on the An a log Gen er a tor
panel, turn the gen er a tor ON, then close the panel win dow. The sig nal will
con tinue at the set tings you’ve made un til you open the panel again and make
changes to the set tings.
Many of the 2700 se ries pan els come in two sizes, the smaller hav ing fewer
com mands and read outs vis i ble, and the larger show ing ev ery op tion. Dou ble-
click on the panel ti tle bar to ex pand or con tract it.
Panel Settings
Set tings for tests and mea sure ments are made us ing sev eral dif fer ent types
of con trols on the pan els:
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Set ting fields, which come in sev eral ver sions:
The text box, in which you can directly enter a value from the
keyboard.
The drop-down list box, in which you can make a selection from a set
of choices.
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Figure 14. A 2700 series panel.