“Signal View” Window, Part 2

The following items “signal view” right clicks menu

“Signal properties”: This item is used for setting the display and color of signals in “signal view”. When you click on it, “signal properties” page opens. Also, you can open this window by double clicking “signal view”. The display and color of analog signals can be set by “analog signals” tab. You can select the signal from “signal” frame. Here, “V L3-E” is selected as an example. The selected signal can be observed in the field “Name”. The selected signal cannot be changed. In “Line style”, the user can select a style for signal curve display. Solid is the default style. However, the user can change that in the existing dropdown menu. The line thickness is set by “line width” that has a maximum value of 15 point. By clicking “color”, you can select a color for signal line. “Marker type” is used for inserting a special geometric shape along the signal path; the geometric shape can be selected out of the shapes in the list. Here, “square” is selected for “V L3-E”. Before leaving this page, any change in the signals can be observed in “preview” field. In the field “space between markers”, the space between the selected “markers” on the signal line can be set based on “pixel”. For example, “10px” is selected on the space. On “preview” field, you can see some circles created on the signal curve; the space between these circles is “10px”.

The display style and color of binary signals are set in the “binary signals” tab. The signal is selected from the “signal” menu, and the name is observed in the “name” field .Here, “Bin. Out 1” is selected. The signal color is selected from menu “color”. Here, orange is selected as the signal color. The changes in the signal can be observed in “preview”. By clicking “OK”, the settings are applied on the signals. Note that in order to retrieve the default settings of signal display, you can click “reset to default” in “signal properties” window.

You can open “selected signal (lissasous)” by clicking on it. In this window, the user can select two signals from the fields “horizontal axis” and “vertical axis” and display them terms of one another. For example, here the two signals “V L1-E” and “V L2-E” are selected and displayed in terms of one another after clicking “Zoom all”. In the left toolbar, there are some tools for making changes in the curve. These tools are respectively used for displaying and hiding the toolbar, selecting the pointer icon, undo and redo, zooming the curve, zoom all, zoom in, zoom out, and selection of pan mode for moving the curve.

Note that the user can press the mouse scroll and move “signal view” curves on the diagram. The window “go to time signal view” can be opened by “Ctrl + G” keys. If the user wants to observe the signal at a specific time, the considered time should be specified in the field “specific time”. Also, in order to determine the signal between two points, the user should specify the times in the fields “from” and “to” in “In range” section. For example, 0.5 second is inserted in “from” and 0.8 second is inserted in “to”. You will see that the signals of voltage group “A” are displayed in the specified range.

If the user has inserted several curves in “signal view” window, these curves can be observed by using the keys “up” and “down”. For instance, some curves are activated and can be seen by using the up and down keys.