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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 displayed
along the right side of the display screen. These menus are called softkey
menus .
Softkey menus list functions other than those accessed directly by the
front-panel keys . T o 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 .
A dditional functions are listed in blue type above and below some of the
front-panel keys . These functions are called shifted functions . T o 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 , 4 Timebase 5 . Softkeys are indicated by shading on the
key label, for example ,
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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 4 Shift 5 key followed by the shaded shifted
function, for example the Local function (above the 4 Stop/Single 5 front-panel
key) will be shown as 4 Shift 5 , 4 Lo cal 5 .
A softkey with On and O in its label can be used to turn the softkey's
function on or o. T o turn the function on, press the softkey so On is
highlighted. T o turn the function o, press the softkey so O is highlighted.
An On or O softkey function will be indicated throughout this manual as:
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Test On.
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