Measurement Computing TempBook rev.3.0 - Manual (Page 19)

Using TempView
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TempBook User’s Manual, 11-16-00 Using TempView (16-bit) 3-1
TempView is a 16-bit graphical Microsoft Windows application for operating TempBook hardware.
No programming knowledge is required to operate this application. TempView allows you to set up an
application to acquire data and save it directly to disk with the ability to transmit the data to other Windows
applications, such as spreadsheets and databases. TempView provides the following capabilities:
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Set up all of the analog input parameters, then acquire and save the data to a disk file.
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Exercise TempBook’s digital I/O section.
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Exercise the counter/timer.
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Launch PostView, an independent application to graphically view waveforms previously recorded by
TempView. PostView is discussed in chapter 4.
Application Startup
If you have not already installed TempView, refer to chapter 1 of this manual. To launch the application,
double-click the TempView icon. TempView holds many user-configured parameters which can be saved
to disk. The default configuration file name is “TEMPVIEW.CFG”. TempView will then proceed to
search the working directory for the TEMPVIEW.CFG configuration file. The following conditions may
apply:
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If the default configuration file is found, all the required setup information will be extracted from it,
and the application's main window will open.
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If the default configuration file is not found, TempView will try to connect with the TempBook
hardware with the following default parameters: Printer Port LPT1, Interrupt Level 7, and 4-bit
Standard Protocol.
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If connection with the TempBook is established, the applications main window will open with default
setup.
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If all of the above fails to establish communications with the TempBook, then a dialog box will appear
asking whether or not you want to open a different setup file. Answering “Yes” will open another
dialog box where you can select your file. If this is the first time you have used this application, no
saved setups will be available; select “No”.
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If a configuration file is selected, no further dialog boxes will appear, all the required setup
information will be extracted from it, and the applications main window will open.
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If no user configuration file is selected or found, or communications is not established, the next dialog
prompts the user to choose a real instrument or a simulated instrument. If the hardware is not
available and you just want to try out the software, select Simulated Instrument. The Simulated
Instrument mode allows you to exercise all the software functions without any hardware installed. If
the TempBook hardware is connected and switched on, select Real Instrument.
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If Real Instrument was selected, an additional dialog box will appear, prompting you to select the LPT
port that the hardware is connected to, the interrupt level of that port, and the parallel port protocol to
use.
TempView will attempt to find the TempBook on the specified LPT port. If the hardware is found, the
application's main window will open. If no hardware is found, a message appears and the application will
open with the controls disabled.
To reconfigure the LPT port setting and try again, click Select LPT Port under the Select Port menu. If the
TempBook hardware still cannot be identified by the software, exit TempView and try the TEMPTEST
utility program.