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3156B User Manual
WaveCAD 4-4 Racal Instrument © 2005
The Startup & Communication Options dialog box is displayed. You
can check the “Store and don’t show…” so next time you invoke
WaveCAD, this dialog box will not be displayed. The purpose of this
dialog box is to update the program in the way you intend to use it. For
example, if you are using the VXI module address 2, then you, then
you can click on the Specify an Address option and type in the
required address so the next time you use WaveCAD, the program will
automatically resume communication with the same address as was
originally detected.
If you chose to hide this dialog box, you can still access and change
the options from the System command, at the top of the screen.
Make your selection and click OK. The Startup & Communication
Updater dialog box will be removed from the screen. And two panels:
the Main and the standard Waveform panel will now be accessible.
But before we go into panel operation, let’s look at the toolbars at the
left top of the screen as shown in Figure 5-2.
Figure 4-2 WaveCAD's Toolbars
The standard Windows
Menu Bar
is the top bar. It provides access to
main system controls like saving files, and viewing or removal of
screen images.
The second bar is called
Link
bar. It provides direct access to different
instruments that are active on the VXI bus. WaveCAD can control a
number of 3156B units simultaneously. If the instruments were
connected to the VXIbus system while invoking WaveCAD, they will
automatically be detected by the program and will be placed in the
Link pull-down window. The active instrument is displayed with its
associated address. If you run WaveCAD in offline mode, the Link bar
will show 3156B, Offline.
The
Panels
bar provides direct access to instrument control panels.
The individual control panels are explained later in this chapter. The
MAIN, STD, ARB, TRIG, MOD1 and the other buttons will bring up to
the screen panels that are associated with these names. The WAVE
and FM buttons will open the waveform and FM waveform composers.
The first time you launch WaveCAD, the opening screen will have the
Main panel open. Click on other buttons and interactively get the feel
how WaveCAD opens and closes control panels.