APPENDIX B DAI Signalscan Hot Keys, Buttons, and Colors Reference

Overview B-3

Hot Keys B-3

Custom Buttons B-4

Colors B-6

Custom Colors B-6

Colors When Zooming Out B-7

Overview

This appendix describes some of the features of the Signalscan GUI and how to customize them.

Hot Keys

The Signalscan hot keys, or keyboard shortcuts, are listed in Table B-1. If there is nothing listed in the Windows Systems column, then the hot key is the same for Windows systems as it is for UNIX systems. "Windows Systems" means Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT.

Custom Buttons

You can change which functions are associated with which buttons in each Signalscan window.

Select the Options>Define Buttons menu option. The Define Buttons Window is displayed, as shown in Figure B-1:

Figure B-1. Define Buttons Window

To change the function defined for a button, first select a menu option from the Items in Selected Menu list or from the Items in Selected Submenu list. Then click your left mouse button on the current function for the button whose function you want to change. The function you click on below the button number changes to the function that is selected (highlighted) in the menu items lists.

To undo any changes you make to the button definitions, click the Cancel button in the Define Buttons Window. To return to the default button definitions, click the Default Settings button.

To cause your new button definitions to take effect, click the Configure button. These new settings only affect the type of window where you selected the Options>Define Buttons menu option. That is, if you changed button definitions on a Design Browser Window and then open a new Design Browser Window, both Design Browser Windows reflect the button definition change. However, other windows, such as a Waveform Window, do not reflect these changes.

These changes only remain in effect for the current Signalscan session. To save these button definitions, select File>Save Do-File , and in the Options for Saving a Do-File Window (after you have specified a name for the Do-File), select Button Bars on the Preferences list, as shown in Figure B-2. To use these new button definitions in a new Signalscan session, execute this Do-File (either on the signalscan command line or by selecting File>Execute Do-File . To automatically use your new button definitions every time you use Signalscan, append this Do-File to your .signalscanrc file in your home directory.

Figure B-2. Saving Button Definitions

Colors

Custom Colors

You can change which colors are used for which Signalscan features.

Select the Options>Define Colors menu option. The Define Colors Window is displayed, as shown in Figure B-3:

Figure B-3. Define Colors Window

To change a color definition:

• · Select a feature from the list on the left side of the Define Colors Window.
• · Use your left mouse button to move the Red, Green, Blue, Hue, Brightness, and Saturation sliders.
• · Click the Apply button.

These new color definitions remain in effect only for this Signalscan session. To use these color definitions again, save them in a Do-File, as described for buttons above, but select Color on the Preferences list in the Options for Saving a Do-File Window.

Colors When Zooming Out

Signal colors in the Waveform Window may appear to change when you zoom out. This is because as you zoom out, multiple pixel values must be represented by a single pixel. The following algorithm is used to determine the pixel color used: