SRS Labs CTC100, User Manual

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PC Applications 122
CTC100 Programmable Temperature Controller
FileGrapher is a Windows utility that plots CTC100 log files.
To plot a file, either drag a log file onto the File Grapher icon or double-click the FileGrapher
window appears that shows all of the CTC100 files in the same directory as the plotted file.
Click on a file in the file selection window to plot it. Shift-click or Control-click to plot two or
more files at the same time. The first file listed in the selection window always appears as a black
trace; the second file is always red, the third blue, the fourth orange.
zoom out to the previous zoom area, double-click on the graph. Triple-click on the graph to show
all data.
When FileGrapher opens a file, it reads the entire file into a buffer in RAM. Very large files may
PTCFileConverter to downsample the file before opening it with FileGrapher.
File menu
Open
Opens a directory for plotting. All log files in the directory are shown in the selection window
and the selected file is plotted. All unsaved changes to data in the old directory are lost.
Close
Closes the selected directory. All unsaved changes to data are lost and the selection window
closes.
S a ve GIF
Saves the graph as a GIF file.
S a ve da ta
Saves a trace as a text file or a binary (.PTC) file. See the PTCFileConverter documentation for
more information on data saving options.
E xit:
Quits the program.
Edit menu
Items in the Edit menu may affect how data buffers are graphed, but do not affect the contents
of the buffers.
P lot options
Opens a window that controls the appearance
with the new set undo all
changes since the last time the graph was updated and close the window.
Automatically scale X: if checked, the graph is automatically scaled to show the full
time span of the data.
X minimum: -
hand edge of the graph; any values entered here by the user