ORTEC Easy-MCS, Hardware User Manual

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Easy-MCS
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In addition to changing the scaling of the spectrum, you can change the colors of the various
spectrum features (e.g., background, spectrum, ROIs) using the Display menu commands.
5.3. The Toolbar
The row of buttons below the Menu Bar provides convenient shortcuts to some of the most
commonly used MCS-32 commands.
The Recall button reads an existing spectrum file into the buffer; MCS-32 must first be
in buffer mode. This command is the equivalent of selecting File/Recall Data... from
the menu.
Save Spectrum copies the currently displayed spectrum to disk. It duplicates the menu
functions File/Save Data As....
MCS > Buffer copies the currently displayed instrument’s spectrum data to the buffer.
This duplicates Acquire/MCS > Buffer. To then view the buffer contents, click the
Buffer radio button on the Sidebar, press <F4> or <Alt + 6>, or use the
Display/MCS/Buffer menu command.
Show Marker Information reports the current marker position on the Supplementary
Information Line. This duplicates Calculate/Marker and <Alt + M>.
Mark ROI marks the highlighted block of channels at the marker position as an ROI.
This duplicates ROI/Mark Peak, and the <Insert> and Keypad<Ins> keys. This
command is available in buffer mode only.
Clear ROI removes the ROI mark from the channels of the peak currently selected
with the marker. This duplicates ROI/Unmark ROI, and the <Delete> and
Keypad<Del> keys. This command is available in buffer mode only.
Find Previous ROI and Find Next ROI move the marker backward or forward
through the spectrum to the next closest ROI. They duplicate <Ctrl +
7
> and
<Ctrl +
6
>, respectively, and are available in buffer mode only.
Execute Peak Search performs the peak search described in Section 6.3.9, and marks
the resulting peaks as ROIs. This command is available in buffer mode only. This
duplicates Calculate/Peak Search.