Measurement Computing Personal Daq rev.6.0 - Manual (Page 48)

4-6 Personal DaqView 989394 Personal Daq User’s Manual
Help
Contents and Index Accesses the program’s Help file. Contents include:
Introduction
Setting Up Personal DaqView
Taking an Acquisition
Viewing Your Data
Frequently Asked Questions
Troubleshooting
About Personal DaqView Provides the program’s software version number.
Channel Configuration Window
You can bring up the Channel Configuration Window by using the Configure Channel Settings button (9)
on the Main Control Window toolbar, or by selecting Channel Configuration from the Main Control
Window’s View pull-down menu.
The Channel Configuration Window contains a Control pull-down menu and a 2-button toolbar. The
window displays any one of three tabbed spreadsheets for selecting the type of channel to be configured.
The tabs are labeled Analog Input, Frequency/Pulse Input, and Digital Input/Output.
Channel Configuration Window, Selected for Analog Input Spreadsheet
Channel Configuration Window Toolbar
The Channel Configuration Window consists of two buttons (items 16 and 17) as identified by the previous
figure and the following table.
Button Function
16 Enable Readings
Column
Activates the Channel Configuration Window’s reading column. Does not affect the
recording of data to disk.
17 Disable Readings
Column
Stops the Channel Configuration Window’s reading column. Does not affect the
recording of data to disk.
Channel Configuration Window Pull-down Menu
The channel configuration window contains one pull-down menu labeled, Control. This menu provides a
means of enabling and disabling the readings column, as do toolbar items (16 and 17).