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Introduction
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Screen layout
The PicoScope application window is divided into the following three areas:
Display area
Used to display the instrument windows containing the data read from the oscilloscope.
Instrument toolbar
Located at the top of the screen, this provides the most commonly used controls for the
active instrument window. Each instrument window has its own toolbar and controls.
Sample toolbar
Positioned along the bottom of the window, this toolbar shows the current sampling
status and provides controls for triggering.
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Display area
The display area is the central area of the screen. It can contain a number of instrument
windows, each showing test data in a different way. You might want to repeatedly use the
same set of instrument windows. To save a particular window arrangement, you can
choose any of the following options:
Save to a data file. This will have a file extension of PSD. You can then re-load the file
to see the data again
Save to a setup file. This will have a file extension of PSS. You can then re-load the file
to use the same settings, but without the data. Read in more data using the same
settings
Use the Save settings function. The next time you run PicoScope it will start up with
the same windows and settings loaded
Save the data for a particular window in TXT format, suitable for importing into Excel,
and WMF, JPG and BMP format, suitable for importing into desktop publishing
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