Macros: DispLI, RI, LO, RO

This is a group of 4 buttons below the left end of the trace area. The top two are labeled 'L.In' and 'R.In' and below them are 'L.Out' and 'R.Out'. They are all disabled by default, until you toggle Generator and/or Input on. Then the buttons for all active channels will be enabled, and if any enabled button is also selected its respective channel trace will be displayed. A selected button is shown depressed, in the same color as its trace, with a background color the same as the trace screen.

When you toggle Generator or Input off (or just toggle one channel off in the Generator or Input dialog), the relevant display button or buttons become disabled but retain their current up or down states until the channels are toggled back on. This allows you, for example, to toggle the Generator off momentarily to make an adjustment or just to check the effect on the Input signal, and retain your display selections when you toggle it back on.

Opening a file for viewing also enables and activates the display buttons for each channel that was active in the original trace. However, .WAV and .DAT files don't have provisions to store information about which channels are inputs or outputs; if there are one or two channels, Daqarta assumes they are inputs. If there are 4 channels, Daqarta assumes the first two are inputs and the second two are outputs. Daqarta's own .DQA format keeps track of channel information, so they will always be shown exactly as recorded.

The display channel buttons are not just status indicators. Sometimes, when the traces are very "busy", it may be useful to toggle a display channel off to reduce the visual screen clutter. These buttons only affect the display, not the actual input or output data streams. When you toggle a button off, it pops out and changes to ordinary grey color.

You can toggle these buttons from the keyboard via

 ALT+SHIFT+L    Left Out
 ALT+L          Left In
 ALT+SHIFT+R    Right Out
 ALT+R          Right In

The Y axis of the trace area is shown with the units and scaling of only one of the active display channels. Input channels have the highest priority, and Left has priority over Right. The priority order from highest to lowest is thus L.In, R.In, L.Out, R.Out. If the highest-priority display button is toggled off, the Y axis will change to reflect the next-highest priority.

The channel display buttons do not affect the cursors or their readouts, as long as at least one channel is shown. This allows you to monitor a readout from one channel while viewing the waveform or spectrum of another, without visual interference from the first.

You can toggle any and all active channel buttons at any time. If you toggle all of them off, there will of course be nothing to display and the trace area will go blank. The curors and grid will vanish as well, and Daqarta will prompt you with 'SELECT DISPLAY CHANNEL' across the trace.

Note that even when an active channel is not being displayed, any cursor readout set to that channel continues to function normally.

Macro Notes:

DispLI=1 enables Left Input display, DispLI=0 disables it, and DispLI=x toggles between enabled and disabled.

Similarly, DispRI controls the Right Input, DispLO controls the Left Output, and DispRO controls the Right Output.

Note that unlike most controls, these can be toggled via macro even when they are disabled. The new state takes effect when the control is later enabled, such as by toggling that Input or Output channel on.

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