Monarch Instrument DC 2000 - Manual (Page 39)

Chapter 3 Getting Started
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3.3.4 Interactive Browse
The interactive browse mode enables the user to uniquely identify points on the screen by time, date and value,
and move around in time. Once the Browse source has been selected, FILE or RAM, pressing the BROWS
button again, immediately or after a search or compress operation, will enter the Interactive Browse mode, and
the Browse Button Bar shown in Figure 3-12 below will appear.
The cursor appears near the center of the screen. It can be moved with the UP Arrow and the Down Arrow keys
in the Vertical mode, or with the Left Arrow and the Right Arrow keys in the Horizontal mode. Pressing these
keys a single time, moves the cursor one sample at a time, holding these keys will cause the cursor to move
in 10 sample increments. As the cursor moves, the time and date information is updated in the status window
at the top of the screen. To move about more speedily, the PAGE- and PAGE+ buttons move the data forward
or backward an entire screen at a time.
When browsing graphics, the Status Bar at the top of the screen shows the Date and Time stamp and actual
value for the trace data directly under the cursor. Note that if you are browsing Memory there will be an “M” in
the right hand corner of this line or if browsing Files, there will be an “F” as follows:
To see the actual pen data value press the PEN button to toggle the data through each trace if more than one
trace is displayed. As the data is toggled, the traces for all pens but the selected one, disappear. Press EXIT
to return to real time viewing from the RAM browser or to the directory from the FILE browser.
3.3.5 File Browsing
File Browsing can be done at any time, note however that if you are browsing from disk while recording,
there may be delays in retrieving data from the disk as writing to disk has priority over reading from disk.
Press BROWS to bring up the Browse Select Button Bar and choose FILE, to browse files from the disk.
Note: Ensure that a disk is present and that it has suitable files or you will get an error message.
Once FILE has been pressed the unit will check the disk then bring up a directory. If there is more than one
file per point, the files for that point will be displayed one under the other with an “<” indicating the current
file selected as shown below. The list will scroll if it is longer than what will fit on the screen.
Figure 3-12 The Browse Button Bar
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