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The Report is a DIAdem ® record of the previous DIAdem ® sessions with the start and finish of
each work session, along with error messages and warnings and the corresponding dates and
times. You can find out more about the nature and meaning of these messages from Report in the
Options menu. You can also delete the report there.
Active Help: Demos and Examples
The examples and demos are in general intended as solutions to specific tasks in a DIAdem
®
device. You
can start these examples directly from DIAdem ® Help.
Sample demos in Help
Click on the question mark in the Menu bar, then choose Examples. Click on a device symbol to go directly
to the list of corresponding examples.
With the examples, there are differences in the level of complexity between the demo sequences,
applications and templates. The demo sequences are short film sequences, which present the creation of a
graphic DIAdem
® -GRAPH ,for example. The applications and templates demonstrate not only the spectrum
of application for the program, they can also be used as the basis for your own (partial) solutions. For this
purpose, press the info button
before the particular example, for a display of a task description and the
files used.
Start Example
The Start button is used to start the example; and <ESC> cancels the display, measurement, or
Autosequence.
To use a demo you have opened as a pattern, save it under a new name in the user directory
(..\diadem\user\dac). Since these solutions are not directed towards specific tasks, you can use them as
building blocks in material you are working on by transferring them with the clipboard.
Copy and Insert You can mark the entire display or block diagram with <CTRL + A>. To select a portion of either, expand
the blue frame to the desired dimension while holding down the left mouse button. Then you can copy the
selected portion to the clipboard with <CTRL + C> and insert it back into another block diagram in the
Working area at the position of the mouse cursor with <CTRL + V>.
Options
Desktop Settings
The various program settings in DIAdem ® can be accessed via the “Settings” menu. The “Desktop
Parameters” include all the workshop-related settings such as the menu points General, Parameter file,
Device-specific, Memory organization, GPI-DLL Registration and Report. In the single devices, you will
also find device-specific settings such as the hardware assignment and packet processing, or the page
layout (in the optional DIAdem
®
-GRAPH device) to name a few.
Desktop Settings
General Settings The Desktop settings include the General Settings, such as those for program behavior (warnings, warning
tone for errors, long Quickinfo), for the data format and channel characteristics as well as the selection of
other ASCII editors, in particular for the Autosequences.
The path selection (see Directory structure) and the specification of the standard files to be loaded for all
the DIAdem
® devices are made in the sub-menu with the same name. Although the library paths can only be
altered using the settings, DIAdem ® retains the path the last file was loaded from as the user path, for each
device.
Device-specific Device-specific settings include, for example, specifying the memory form in DIAdem ® -DATA, the
ASCII data and the data checks.
Note: Another start file can be entered here. By the way, if no file name is entered here, no template will
be loaded in the appropriate device!