The control bar is located on the outer edge of each frame.
The first option at the top of each control bar is the
MENU.
Under the menu there are four options each of which controls some aspect
of the display.The SWEEP FILES widget controls what data is displayed. The
PARAMETER widget controls data diplay limits and contains the widget which
controls the display colors. The VIEW widget controls magnification, frame
center, frame configuration, placement and layout of rang rings. The FRAME
LOCKS widget is used to control frame linking.
The rest of the control bar is used for moving around in the sweep files.
Each frame is designed with its own control bar so they can operate
independently of each other. The control bar in one frame is able to control
other frames by using the FRAME LOCKS widget to link them.
For more details on the control bar see menu options and arrow buttons
listed in the index.
The remaining symbols on the control bar are used for moving through
the data without accessing the sweeps widget. As mentioned earlier
the INPUT SCAN INTERVAL controls how
many sweep files are skipped when using the arrow keys.
Clicking on this symbol
causes the frame and all frames locked with it to skip back through
the data and plot every INPUT SCAN INTERVAL sweep until hitting the
beginning of the data or until the STOP ICON is clicked.
Skips back one interval and stops on that sweep.
This effects only the frame it was clicked in and any frames that are
locked with it.
Re-plots the frame without skipping sweeps. Only
effects the window in which it was clicked in. This is used to update
the plot of any changes made to it from the widgets in the MENU
without displaying a new sweep.
Skips forward an interval and stops on that sweep.
This effects the frame it was clicked in and any frames that are locked
with it.
Clicking on this symbol causes the frame and
all frames locked with it to skip forward through the data and plot
every INPUT SCAN INTERVAL sweep until hitting the end of the data or
until the STOP ICON is clicked.
The colored box at the bottom of the control bar is
used to update all windows of any changes made to them without
displaying a new sweep. This works just like the = symbol
except it causes the update to occur in the frames displaying the
same colored box. The color of the box is a code to show which
frames are locked together.
The last MENU entry brings up the FRAME LOCKS widget which
controls what frames update when one of the arrow buttons on the
control bar is clicked. Each number in the widget indicates a frame
number, and highlighting is used to indicate which frames are locked
together. Clicking on a highlighted frame number will remove it from
the set of frames locked together, and clicking on a non-highlighted
number will add the frame to the set of frames locked together. If the
program detects sweep links between frames in the set and frames
not in the set, these sweep links will be severed.
One can cause a separate set of frames to temporarily share the sweep
information by activating the sweep links for the desired frames even
though these links will again be severed once plotting is initiated.
