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The Numeric window displays the trace data as
columns of numbers. The
Toolbar’s button views the
Numeric window if it is hidden. The "Window > Numeric" menu item also
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Window areas |
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Toolbar area |
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The toolbar area contains the quick-action list
box plus the Numeric window's local toolbar.
The quick-actions available in the the drop-down
list are...
- Reset all column widths- Resets the
columns to their minimum width.
- Delete all columns - Removes all columns so
that no channel groups are displayed.
- View all channel groups - Blanks the
window then inserts a column for each channel group.
- Edit all columns... - Similar to clicking on
a column's setup button except the changes affect all columns. Useful for
changing all columns to the same base, channel group, or color.
- Edit all data views... - Displays trace
data in all columns, reference data, or several combinations of these two
including the trace vs. reference comparison.
The local toolbar buttons are...
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Inserts a new column left of the
selected column. Click once on the setup buttons to select a column. |
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Deletes the selected column.
Click once on the setup buttons to select a column. |
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Edits the Numeric window
options. The selected options are unique to each Numeric window copy. |
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Select the active
mouse mode. This defines the behavior when the left and right mouse
buttons are clicked in the data area. The following mouse modes
are supported in the Numeric window... |
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Move active
marker pair. Three marker-pairs are available for making measurements.
Click the left mouse button to move the first marker in the active
pair. Click the right mouse button to move the second marker in the
active pair.
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Drag-scroll
mode. The click and drag the left mouse button on the trace data to
scroll the data up, down, left, or right. Click the right mouse button
to quickly return to the active marker pair mouse mode.
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Setup area |
The setup area contains a button for each column in the window. The setup buttons are used to configure each
column.
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sized to adjust the associated column's width. Move the mouse over a
setup button's right edge. When the mouse cursor changes to the
horizontal resize icon, click and hold the mouse button. Drag the button
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Click on the
column setup buttons to select which data is
displayed (trace, reference, trace vs reference), what channel groups is display, the
text color, and so forth...
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- Data - Choose the "Trace Data", "Reference
Data", "Trace vs. Reference", "Reference vs. Trace" options to display the
associated data. "Trace vs. Reference" compares the
Trace and Reference data.
The trace data is displayed and differences from the reference
data are highlighted. Likewise, the "Reference vs. Trace" option
displays the reference data and highlights
differences from the trace data.
- Base - Defines the numeric base for the
group values. If a symbol
table is loaded into the selected channel group, the "Symbol" and "Symbol+offset"
bases are also available. The group values are replaced by symbol matches
where possible using this base.
- Color - Choose the text color. The
"more..." button allows you to define custom colors.
- Channel group - Select the channel group to
display which was defined earlier in the Setup window. If you forgot to
create a channel group, you can either return to the Setup window or click
the "New channel group wizard..." button and define the group from the
Numeric window.
- Apply changes - Copies the changes to the
Numeric setup but leaves the dialog box open. You can then single-click
on a different setup button to configure a new column. Configuring several
columns this way is faster than opening a closing the dialog box for each
column.
- Done - Copies the changes to the Numeric
setup and exits the dialog box.
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"basic" colors automatically adjust to the pale or dark background colors.
The software uses pale versions of these colors when a dark
background is used. Likewise, the software uses dark versions when a pale background is used. This feature is very convenient if you open projects
file from someone using a different background color.
However, custom colors do NOT adjust to pale or dark background colors. Opening a project file with custom colors may
require the channel group colors to be adjusted. Alternatively, you can
change your background color to something more compatible with the custom
group colors.
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When the activity indicators
are enabled via the "Data > Activity indicators" menu command, the setup
area grows taller to accommodate the channel activity.
In this example, "?"
characters indicate that the hexadecimal digit has at least one bit
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Finally, the setup
buttons supports drag-n-drop to arrange the numeric columns. |
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Move the mouse over a column’s setup button
then press and hold the left mouse button until the column is "lifted". |
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Drag
the mouse horizontally to the line's desired insertion point. |
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Release the mouse button to
drop the line at its new location. |
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down the Control key while dragging to copy the column instead of moving it. |
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Data area |
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The data area displays the captured trace data.
If all the
columns do not fit in the window, a horizontal
scroll bar is displayed which scrolls the columns.
If all the trace and
reference data does not fit in the data area, a vertical scroll
bar is displayed which scrolls the data...
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The
button scrolls to the
previous bookmark. The
button scrolls to the
previous sample. The
button scrolls to the next sample. The
button scrolls to the
next bookmark. The bookmark buttons are only displayed if one or more
bookmarks exist in the project. See
Chapter 9 - Measurements for details on adding and using bookmarks in
your project.The click-n-scroll icons
are convenient for quickly scrolling to a specific marker or bookmark. All
markers and bookmarks are visible here since the scroll bar represents all
currently open data.
The current view indicator is similar to a
standard scroll bar's drag button. You can drag the view indicator up and
down to scroll through the data. However, the GoLogic's custom trace scroll bar
also indicates what data is currently visible in the window. The top edge
of the bracket represents the top edge of the visible data area. Likewise,
the bottom edge of the bracket represents the bottom edge of the visible data
area. As the number of samples changes, the view indicator grows taller and
shorter. The view indicator height remains constant if so many samples are
captured that it becomes too short to be useful.
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When the
mouse mode is active, click the left and right
mouse buttons in the data area to move the active marker pair and make
timing measurements. See
Chapter 9 - Measurements for tips on using the markers effectively. |

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When the
mouse mode is
active, click and drag the left mouse button in the data area to scroll
the data vertically and horizontally. |
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Window options |
Click the
local toolbar button to customize
each Numeric window’s behavior... |

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These options affect the window display and the
text file export...
- Scrolling - Scrolling with other data
windows causes all data windows not scroll independently to update as this
window scrolls. Scrolling independently causes scroll commands to only
affect this window.
- Use X pixels space between columns - This
places extra space between columns.
- Show time between markers measurement -
The time between the marker pairs is painted in the measurement area.
- Show entire time stamp resolution -
Normally, time measurements choose the best units (ps, ns, us, ms, etc)
and only two digits past the decimal are displayed. Check this option to force all
significant digits past the decimal to be displayed.
These options affect the text file export...
- Minimize file size - A
single tab character is used between columns rather than spaces. No column
labels are included. Sample numbers are also omitted.
- Omit sample numbers - No sample numbers
are included in the text file.
- Force all time-units to be the same - All
time values use the selected units.
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Exporting to text files |
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The "File > Export > Numeric to text file..."
and "File > Export > Numeric to CSV file..." menu commands save the Numeric
window’s display to a text file. Exporting to a text file allows the trace
data to be loaded into most analysis and spreadsheet programs. |

Exporting to text
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The text file’s format matches the Numeric
window’s setup. The text is arranged in columns using the Numeric window’s
column setup.
Since many analysis and spreadsheet programs
only read decimal numbers, the columns should be set to the decimal base
before saving the text file. Select the Numeric Columns... item under the
Edit Change All... menu to change all the columns to the decimal base.
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text file size depends on the number of characters in each column, the
number of columns, and the number of samples in the data. Text files larger
than 50 Mbytes can be produced when exporting large trace files. To minimize
the text file size, delete unneeded columns from the Numeric window and use
the hexadecimal base for all columns if possible.
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Dual Numeric windows |
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Numeric #2" menu command to view a second Numeric window. Uncheck this
menu item to display only one Numeric window. |

Dual windows |
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Each Numeric window has an setup database. This allows each window to display different data
and/or channels.
When you first activate the second Numeric window, the new window uses the
same setup as the first window.
Likewise, each window can be configured to
scroll independently or synchronously with the other data windows. Use the
window options to change this option as needed. |
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