Features
The Main User Interface Areas 3
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• Under the Waveform Menu is the Message Window which provides context-sensitive
help and warning and error messages. The background of this area is white for help
messages and orange for warnings. Warnings include messages indicating that
invalid data has been entered or operating boundaries would be exceeded if a set up
request were processed. Messages with red background report serious fault
conditions.
• Eight softkeys which may be used to initiate actions appear across the bottom of the
screen. Some of these actions may cause a pop-up screen to appear. The context of
the softkeys transfers to the pop-up while it is on screen.
3-4. Data Entry from the Front Panel
Refer to Figure 3-2 and Table 3 for the items in this section.
• The keys under the screen () operate the softkeys shown on screen. There is a
keypad area to the right of the screen. This comprises of the blue navigation keys
(), the alphanumeric keys (,,), the dual action Spin Wheel () and the
output control keys (,,).
• () moves focus around the three Menu areas.
• () moves focus around the controls within a Menu area.
• Within the Menu panes, access to the individual controls is via the softkeys or by
moving with . Pushing and holding while using reverses the direction of
movement.
• The softkeys () provide a one-push alternative to using to access items within
the Menu areas.
• Sometimes softkeys have multiple levels of control. When more than one action is
appropriate for a particular context, a further level of softkeys will be revealed when
the key is pushed. The most complex activities may have several layers of softkeys.
Use to reverse upwards through the hierarchy of softkey levels.
• () moves context up through a softkey hierarchy. Pushing also escapes from
pop-up screens.
• Only data fields with yellow background are directly editable. Some are drop-down-
list controls and some numeric entry. When a drop-down-list has focus, the
background becomes blue. and in the navigati
on group shift through the list
items. Pushing or completes the selection and moves focus to the next
control.
• There are three ways to change the values in the numeric entry controls. The numeric
keys () allow direct entry which is completed by pushing or .
(backspace) removes the digit to the left of the entry point each time it is pushed.
• and move the data entry point along the current value. and
increment or decrement the digit at the entry point. The Spin Wheel () can perform
the same actions as and and and . Push the Spin Wheel in and rotate
to move the data entry point. Release the Spin Wheel and rotate it to
increment/decrement the digit at the entry point. It is not necessary to push or
to complete the change.
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