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931054C / 1213 5. DISPLAY FEATURES
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Fig. 15. Sidebar.
The Start and Stop radio buttons provide controls for the data
acquisition functions, as well as status information.
To start acquisition in the selected MCS, click the Start button.
Start will then turn gray, indicating that it is now inactive.
Click the Stop button to end data acquisition. When you click
Stop, acquisition stops at the end of the current pass. While this
final pass is collected, the Stop button flashes. Once the final
pass is completed, the Stop button stops flashing.
You can abort the acquisition without finishing the current pass
by clicking Stop a second time. When the selected MCS is not
acquiring data, Stop is gray (inactive).
The Start and Stop buttons have the same function as Acquire/
Start and Acquire/Stop (see Section 6.2), and are duplicated by
the <Alt + 1> and <Alt + 2> accelerators, respectively.
The Clear button clears the spectrum data and pass count from
the buffer or the selected MCS. To clear an inactive MCS, click
once on Clear. During acquisition, the Clear button is gray
(inactive).
The Clear button has the same functions as Acquire/Clear (Section 6.2.3) and the <Alt + 3>
accelerator.
5.6.2. View Section
The controls in the View (lower) section of the sidebar are active in both MCS and buffer mode.
The Horiz and Vert arrow buttons are for scaling the expanded display up and down by factors
of two. These buttons duplicate, respectively, the Narrower/Wider and Shorter/Taller com-
mands on the Display menu (see Section 6.6), and their accelerator keys, <F7>/<F8> and
<F5>/<F6>.
The Log and Lin radio buttons switch the expanded display between logarithmic and linear
scaling. These buttons duplicate the function of the Logarithmic toggle on the Display menu
(see Section 6.6), and the Keypad</> key.