Input Control

Dewesoft provide new control elements, allowing users to control Dewesoft actions like start and stop or to directly influence outputs, like function generator parameters.

Control element has two basic modes of operations:

Dewesoft action to control Dewesoft for example in full screen.
Control channel operation to manually control function generator or for example some of the digital outputs.

In the Dewesoft action mode, only push buttons are allowed. There are several actions possible:

Start - will start the measurement from Stop mode
Stop - will stop the measurement (and storing)
Pause - will pause recording, it is actually pause/resume toggle - if paused, it will resume measurement
Freeze - will freeze the recorders if Freeze buffer is enabled in Project setup
Store - will start storing
Trigger - will issue manual trigger in Store mode
Screen select - will select the screen named the same as Action string
Keyboard event - will make the Keyboard event
Set channel - will set channel
File name - will show file name
Sample rate - will show sample rate
Exit Dewesoft - will exit the Dewesoft

Action string defines the name of the button.

Input_control_display

When using Control channels, we can display Control element as:

Input field - to manually enter a new control value
Push button - to allow short on/off event
Switch - to switch between two or more states (could be defined by the control channel)
Turn knob - to allow smooth transition between values defined by min and max
Horizontal / vertical slider - same as turn knob, but linear
Check box
Drop-down list
Up down list

For turn knob, horizontal and vertical slider we can also define minimum and maximum limit. In analyse mode Control element has no function.