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Context Menus and Tool Tips
Two important elements do not appear in the screen above, since they are not normally visible:
context menus (sometimes called shortcut menus) and tool tips.
Context menus provide rapid access to the most important features. You can access them by
clicking on the right mouse button from many places in the program. For example one context
menu offers features used in working with the active axis system in the optional DIAdem
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GRAPH device.
Tool tips
Tool tips are text fields used to identify symbols. A tool tip appears whenever the mouse
pointer momentarily rests on the corresponding symbol.
You can use Tool tips to familiarize yourself with the individual devices. To activate a tool tip,
slowly move the mouse pointer over the Device bar without pressing a mouse key.
The DIAdem Devices
Part of the DIAdem ® Device Bar
The DIAdem
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devices could be thought of as a set of work tools. Each tool is intended for a
specific purpose. Note that devices can be easily distinguished by their graphic images (icons).
The element common to each of these devices is the data, which is processed in different
manners by different devices. In our analogy, the data is then the work object on which the
tools are used. Data must first be available to be processed by the devices.
There are two types of devices:
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devices that can create data, for example, the optional DATA and optional CALC devices
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devices that merely display data, such as the VIEW device and the optional GRAPH
device.
The optional Autosequences represent a special case, as they can use features from all the
devices, in order to automate work sequences.
Mouse pointer
To select a device, simply click on the corresponding symbol in the Device bar with the left
mouse button. For example to choose the optional DIAdem
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GRAPH device, if applicable.
Note: Whenever you are told in this manual to activate, click on or execute a feature, device or
object, it means you should click on the appropriate symbol or object with the left mouse
button. Similarly, “double-clicking” and “pressing a button” refer to the left mouse button.
The Module Bar
DIAdem ® GRAPH
Module Bar
When you select a device, the Module bar, another vertical bar, appears to the right of the
DIAdem
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Device bar. Similar features and functions are arranged together in groups on this
bar.
For the optional DIAdem
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GRAPH device, this means that the symbols for individual graphic
modules are found here: axis system, tables, and background images to name a few.
For the optional DIAdem
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CALC device, the mathematical formulas are grouped together on
the module bar: basic math functions and features for signal analysis and statistics.