EDD/DM User's Manual, 2.4

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Contents

Preface

1. - Changes in 2.4

2. - Changes as of 2.3

3. - Changes as of 2.2

4. - Version Incompatibility and Converting Display List Files

Chapter 1 - Introduction

1. - An Overview of the Display Editor

2. - An Overview of the Display Manager

Chapter 2 - Basic Operations

1. - Starting EDD

1.1. - Setting Your Path

1.2. - Setting Your Environment Variables

1.3. - Starting EDD

2. - The Display Operations Area

2.1. - Basic EDD Operations

2.1.1. - Text Entry

2.1.2. - Working with Sliders

2.2. - The Display Menu

2.2.1. - Load Display

2.2.2. - Save Display

2.2.3. - Copy Display

2.2.4. - Quit

2.2.5. - Activate Display

2.2.6. - Report Display

3. - The Modify Display Options

3.1. - The Display Attributes Window

3.1.1. - Horizontal and Vertical Position

3.1.2. - Horizontal and Vertical Size (the Display Window Size)

3.1.3. - Foreground Color and Background Color

3.1.4. - Default Edge Style and Default Fill Style

To change the 'default edge style' attribute:

To change the 'default fill style' attribute:

To change the 'default line width' attribute:

3.1.5. - The Default Color Modifier

To change the setting of the Default Color Modifier:

3.1.6. - The Default Visibility Modifier

3.1.7. - Precision Override

3.1.8. - Default Color Rule Name

3.1.9. - Default Channel

3.1.10. - External Color Palette Display Name

3.2. - The Color Table

3.2.1. - Modifying the Color Table

To add colors to the color map:

To subtract colors from the color map:

3.3. - Adding and Deleting Color Rules

To add to the list of color rules:

To subtract from the list of color rules:

Chapter 3 - Working With Templates And Color Rules

1. - Templates

1.1. - Creating a New Display from a Template

To create a new display from a template:

1.2. - Sharing Colors Among Displays

To reference a color template file as an external color palette:

2. - Color Rules

2.1. - Modifying an Object by a Color Rule

2.2. - Configuring a Color Rule

Channel

Comparator

To change the comparator of an expression:

Value

Connector

To change the connector:

Color

To change the color of an expression:

2.3. - More About Expressions

2.4. - A Color Rule Example

2.5. - More About Color Rules

Chapter 4 - Creating and Manipulating Objects

1. - The Drawing Area Menus

2. - Creating an Object

To create an object:

3. - Undoing an Operation

4. - Selecting an Object

To select a single object:

To select more than one object:

To select all the objects within a display:

5. - Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Objects

To copy an object or objects:

To cut an object:

To paste the contents of the paste buffer onto the display:

6. - Grouping and Ungrouping Objects

To group a set of objects:

To ungroup a group of objects:

7. - Aligning Objects

7.1. - Left Edges

To align the left edges of two or more objects:

7.2. - Right Edges

To align the right edges of two or more objects:

7.3. - Top Edges

To align the top edges of two or more objects:

7.4. - Bottom Edges

To align the bottom edges of two or more objects:

7.5. - Horizontal Centers

To align the horizontal centers of two or more objects:

7.6. - Vertical Centers

To align the vertical centers of one or more objects:

7.7. - Centers

To align the centers of two or more objects:

8. - Distributing Objects

To distribute three or more objects:

9. - Moving Objects into the Foreground and Background

To move an object into the foreground:

To move an object into the background:

10. - Property Sheets

To bring up an object's property sheet:

11. - Moving and Resizing Objects

11.1. - Moving Objects

To move an object by using its property sheet:

To move an object (or objects) with the move option:

To move an object (or objects) by dragging it:

11.2. - Resizing Objects

To resize an object by using its property sheet:

To resize an object by dragging one of its handles:

To resize an object or object by using the resize option:

12. - Modifying Channel Names

Chapter 5 - Graphics Objects

1. - General Characteristics and Properties

1.1. - Static and Dynamic Objects

To change a static graphics object to a dynamic one:

To change a dynamic object to a static one:

1.2. - Channel for Dynamics

1.3. - The Color, Default Edge and Fill Style Properties

1.4. - Visibility Modifiers

2. - Rectangles

3. - Lines, Polylines, and Polygons

To draw a diagonal line:

To draw a straight line:

To draw a polygon:

4. - Ovals

To create an oval or circle:

5. - Arcs

6. - Text Objects

To create a text object:

7. - 3-D Borders

8. - Images

To create an image object:

Chapter 6 - Monitors

1. - General Characteristics and Properties

1.1. - Creating Monitors

To create a monitor:

1.2. - Property Sheets

1.2.1. - Channel to Control or Monitor

1.2.2. - Foreground and Background Colors

1.2.3. - Label Type

To change the setting of the label type property:

1.2.4. - High and Low Display Limits

1.2.5. - Precision

1.2.6. - Specify New Units

1.2.7. - Units Modifier

1.2.8. - 3-D Border

1.2.9. - Conversion

1.2.10. - Conversion Parameters

2. - Indicators

3. - Bars

4. - Meters

5. - Text Update Objects

6. - Byte Widgets

Chapter 7 - Controllers

1. - General Characteristics and Properties

1.1. - Creating Controllers

To create a controller:

1.2. - Property Sheets

1.2.1. - Channel To Control or Monitor

1.2.2. - Foreground and Background Colors

1.2.3. - Precision

1.2.4. - Specify New Units

1.2.5. - Units Modifier

1.2.6. - 3-D Borders

1.2.7. - Conversion and Conversion Parameters

2. - Valuators

3. - Text Entry Objects

4. - Choice Buttons

5. - Message Buttons

6. - Menu Objects

7. - File Selection Objects

8. - Related Display Callup Objects

9. - Execute Script Objects

10. - Kill Display Objects

11. - Toggle Buttons

12. - Print Display and Print Options Objects

Chapter 8 - Plots

1. - General Characteristics and Properties

1.1. - Creating Plots

1.2. - Plot Title, x Axis Title, and y Axis Title

1.3. - Foreground, Background, and Data Colors

1.4. - Plot Package

1.5. - Label Type

1.6. - Data Channels and Pen Channels

1.7. - Sample Save Count

2. - Cartesian Plots

3. - Smith Overlay Plots

4. - Strip Charts

Chapter 9 - DM: Run-time Operation

1. - Overview of the Display Manager

2. - Running DM

2.1. - Setting Your Path

2.2. - Setting Your Environment Variables

2.3. - Setting your X Defaults

2.4. - Running DM

2.4.1. - The DM Window

2.4.2. - Expanding Macros from the Command Line

3. - Managing Display Windows

3.1. - Arranging Display Windows

3.2. - Updating Display Windows

4. - Display Manager Operations

4.1. - The Display Manager Menu

4.2. - Chan Name Pop-up Windows

4.3. - Using Related Display Callup, Execute Script, and Kill Display Objects

4.3.1. - Related Display Callup Objects

To use a related display object:

4.3.2. - Execute Script Objects

To invoke a script with an execute script object:

4.3.3. - Kill Display Objects

4.4. - Using Print Display and Print Options Objects

4.5. - Using Controller Objects

4.5.1. - Valuators

To change the value of a valuator:

4.5.2. - Text Entry Objects

To enter in values for a text entry object:

4.5.3. - Choice Buttons

4.5.4. - Message Buttons

4.5.5. - Menus

To use a menu:

4.5.6. - Filename Selection Menus

4.5.7. - Toggle Buttons

To toggle a channel on and off:

5. - What To Look For: Monitors and Plots

5.1. - Monitors

5.1.1. - Indicators

5.1.2. - Bars

5.1.3. - Text Update Objects

5.1.4. - Meters

5.1.5. - Byte Widgets

5.2. - Plots

6. - Color Rules

7. - Channel Connection Errors

Index

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