Chapter 3
Windows and Menus
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Packet View Toolbar
Gives access to view options for the
packet view.
Statistics View Toolbar
Gives access to view options for the
statistics view.
Standard Toolbar
Gives access to commonly used functions
in a toolbar format.
About the NI-FBUS Monitor Interface
The NI-FBUS Monitor consists of windows and data objects. The main
window is the large desktop window that contains all other windows of the
NI-FBUS Monitor. It has a menu bar and various toolbars. The smaller
windows inside the main window are filter windows. Each filter window
uses a
single filter
to determine what data the NI-FBUS Monitor captures.
The main data object that stores these captured data packets on a disk and
holds the data in memory is called the
capture document
. You can use the
filter window to view the data in the capture document. You can attach
several filter windows with the corresponding filters to the capture
document.
When you select
New
from the
File
menu, the NI-FBUS Monitor creates
a new capture document and a corresponding filter window. The filter
window displays data from the capture document. Each filter window has
an exclusive filter attached to it that you can view as a dialog box. To
display the filter, select
Filter Settings
from the
Capture
menu. You can
use the filter to determine what data the NI-FBUS Monitor displays in the
filter window and what data it saves to the capture document. To add a new
filter window to the document, select
New Filter Window
from the
Capture
menu. Adding a new filter window attaches a new filter window
and filter to the document. You can use the new filter to filter different data.
