Cooper Instruments & Systems ELF 4200 Flexiforce Paper Thin Sensor - Manual (Page 24)

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Properties: opens the Properties dialog box (shown following), which allows you to change how the data is
displayed on the screen. Any changes made here will only affect the currently active Real-time or Movie Window.
The Properties dialog box will also appear whenever you click the right mouse button over a Real-time or Movie
Window.
Under View, you can select whether to display the force data as a Strip Chart, Column, or Number. Strip Chart
shows the pressure data in the form of a chart, with elapsed time (in seconds) on the X-axis, and the selected units
on the Y-axis. Column displays the data as a single column, with the force values on the Y-axis. Number displays
the force data as a digital readout.
In the Properties dialog box, you may also change the Scale Max, Scale Min, and Units. Under Units, the display
units (Percentage, Grams, Kilograms, Newtons, and Pound) are selected. Scale Min and Scale Max set the range
of values that will be displayed. Certain default maximum and minimum values will be displayed for the selected
units, and these values can be changed by clicking on the up and down arrows to the right of the numbers.
Selecting Pause causes the current Real-time window to "freeze", or to ignore all commands. When this is
selected, the word "Pause" will be added to the Title Bar of the window. Movie windows cannot be paused.
4.4.5 Record Menu
Record Menu (only available when focus is on a Real-time Window):
Start:
is used to make a recording (movie). When this is selected, the software begins recording a movie of the
current Real-time window data using the settings that have been selected (see the "Settings" menu item below).
When data is being recorded, the Recording message will appear (shown below), and the "Recording On" icon (on
the Main Toolbar) will become active (the red circle will become "grayed out", and the square "Stop" button -- black
color -- will become visible). If "Triggering" is in effect, and Record is selected, the "Waiting for Trigger" message
will be displayed until the trigger force is reached. Movies created by the ELF system are stored as *.flf files.