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Channel Setup Menu
Menu and Key Conventions
Menu and Key Conventions
The keys labeled Trigger, Disk, and Run are all examples of front-panel keys.
Pressing some front-panel keys accesses menus of functions that are dis-
played along the right side of the display screen. These menus are called soft-
key menus.
Softkey menus list functions other than those accessed directly by the front-
panel keys. To activate a function on the softkey menu, press the unlabeled
key immediately next to the annotation on the screen. The unlabeled keys
next to the annotation on the display are called softkeys.
Additional functions are listed in blue type above and below some of the front-
panel keys. These functions are called shifted functions. To activate a shifted
function, press the blue front-panel Shift key and the front-panel key next to
the desired function.
Throughout this manual front-panel keys are indicated by a box around the
key label, for example,
Timebase
. Softkeys are indicated by shading on the key
label, for example,
Mask Align
. The softkeys displayed depend on the front-
panel key pressed and which menu is selected. Shifted functions are indicated
by the front-panel
Shift
key followed by the shaded shifted function, for exam-
ple the Local function (above the
Stop/Single
front-panel key) will be shown as
Shift, Local
.
A softkey with On and Off in its label can be used to turn the softkey’s function
on or off. To turn the function on, press the softkey so On is highlighted. To
turn the function off, press the softkey so Off is highlighted. An On or Off soft-
key function will be indicated throughout this manual as:
Test On
.
A softkey such as
Sweep Triggered Freerun
offers you a choice of functions. In this
case you could choose Triggered by pressing the softkey until Triggered is
highlighted, or choose Freerun by pressing the softkey until Freerun is high-
lighted. A choices softkey will be indicated throughout this manual as:
Sweep
Triggered Freerun Triggered
.
When some softkeys, such as
Calibrate probe
, are pressed the first time, a mea-
surement will be made and the result will be provided. Some softkeys, such as
Offset
require the entry of a numeric value. To enter or change the value, use
the general purpose knob located below the front-panel Measure section.