Campbell Scientific LoggerNet Datalogger Support Software - Manual (Page 176)

Section 5. Real-Time Tools
File Menu
New Project starts a new RTMC project. The currently opened project will be
closed. If there are changes that have not been saved the user will be prompted
to save changes.
Open brings up the File Open dialog to open a previously saved project.
Save will save the changes in the current project to the RTMC project file. If
this is the first time the project has been saved, a Save As dialog will open to
select the file name and directory for the project file.
Save As brings up the Save As dialog to save the current project with another
name or in a different directory.
Save and Run Project saves the changes in the current project and displays it
in the run-time window.
Exit closes RTMC. If there are unsaved changes, the user will be prompted to
save changes before exiting.
Edit Menu
Cut/Copy/Paste are standard editing operations to take selected objects to the
Windows clipboard and paste them into RTMC or other applications.
Undo cancels the last change made to the project.
Redo repeats the change that was just undone.
Select All selects all of the components in the workspace. The components can
then be cut, copied, deleted, grouped, etc.
Clear Selection clears the selection of components currently highlighted on the
active screen.
The Preferences menu item is used to change some global settings that affect
all projects in RTMC. The Visual Theme determines the look and feel of the
application (i.e., colors, button appearance, etc.). The Working Directory is the
directory in which to store RTMC project files. By default, this is
C:\Campbellsci\RTMC. Press the Change Default Font button to set a new font
for components that have text (numeric value text, graph titles and axes labels,
etc.).
Component summaries are small boxes that are displayed on the screen beside
a component when your mouse cursor hovers over the component for a few
seconds. The box displays information on the type of component, the data
value linked to the component, images used, traces plotted, etc. Select the Show
Component Summaries box to display these hint boxes or clear the box to turn
off the display of the information.
The Grid Options settings allow you to turn on or disable the display of a grid
in the project workspace, and lets you see the size of the grid.
With the Graphics Options settings, you can control the maximum number of
times the RTMC screens will be updated per second, disable animation when a
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