YSI Data Scout Advanced - Manual (Page 34)

eventually displayed there (e.g., pdat for pressure data, pun for pressure units, etc.). When the Acquire function is started, these table
cells are updated with actual “live” data. An alternate Plot display method for displaying acquired data may be selected instead of (or
in addition to) the Table display. The Plot display causes a large rectangular graphic window to hide the display table although its
Xdcr. column always remains to allow individual transducer rows to be selected by clicking them. A Both display type allows both the
full data table and the plot surface to be visible together.
The Run window’s menu functions (and equivalent visual control frames) affect only those transducer(s) assigned to it. However,
some menu functions require that only a single transducer be selected (highlighted) by clicking its row (in the Xdcr. column) of the
data table.
4.2.1 RUN WINDOW’S FILE MENU
The Run window’s File menu has two submenu sections (figure 4.3).
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The first two items open a standard Windows
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Open File dialog window that list files in Data Scout Advanced’s Dat subfolder.
Figure 4.3
The first item File | View ‘AutoLog’ Data Files has its filter pre-specified for viewing all AutoLog Test Data (.atd) files containing data
extracted from Level Scout’s tests. Any comma-separated-variable files, created at the same time but with a .csv extension, may also be
viewed by changing the filter. If the AutoLog Plot window of display is also selected, a selected .atd file is also plotted as well as viewed
as a text file.
The second item File | View ‘Record’ Data Files has its filter pre-specified for viewing all “live” recorded data files in the current
specified Record format (.txt or .csv). Whichever type is initially selected, view the other type by changing the filter. These files cannot
be plotted here, but the Playback functions can plot them.
In either case above, when a file name is selected and then opened, that file will be opened in the default text editor.
Selecting the third item File | Playback Any Data Files causes the Playback application (DSPlay.exe) window to be activated in its own
window. This application has its own File menu (and other menus), and is designed specifically for generating secondary tabular
report files and graphic plots from any data file generated by Data Scout Advanced. It is also capable of performing various Convert
operations on its selected data file. One of these can compensate absolute pressure data obtained from Absolute Level Scout(s) by
associating it with data from another recorded data file obtained from a BaroScout located at a known elevation from the liquid surface
of any well or lake containing the Absolute Level Scout(s) to be compensated. These reference barometer data must be recorded at the
same time (approximately) as the level transducer(s). This Playback application is described fully in Chapter 6.
An Exit item is found in the last section of the File submenu. This item’s only purpose is the exit the Run window. After this Run task
exits, the previously dim Configure, Run, and Test menus on the main Data Scout Advanced window are made available for use again.
If data acquisition is in progress when Exit is requested, the user is warned with a warning message indicating that Exit is not possible
(figure 4.4).
Figure 4.4