Agilent Technologies E1301B, E1300B, 75000 SERIES B user manual Using Menus

Using Menus

A System Instrument menu and a variety of other instrument menus (depending on installed instruments) are available from the terminal interface. These menus incorporate the most used functions but do not provide access to the complete functionality of an instrument. If a particular function is not available from a menu, you can type the corresponding Common Command or SCPI command string and execute it from the terminal interface. See “Executing Commands” later in this chapter for more information.

When you select an instrument, you are assigning the terminal interface to that instrument. This means that any menu operations, commands executed or recalled, errors displayed, etc. pertain only to that instrument. Terminal interface operation of an instrument is independent from other instruments and independent from the remote operation of the instrument. To operate another instrument from the terminal interface, you must select that instrument.

Note: Typical instruments shown. Actual choices depend on installed instrument

Figure 3-2. "Select an instrument" Menu

A60-Second Menu Tutorial

Following the power-on sequence or a system reset, the screen shows the Select an instrument menu (see Figure 3-2). This menu allows you to select one of the instruments listed.

The menu select and menu control function keys (usually labeled f1 - f8 on their key caps) are defined by eight function labels located across the bottom of the terminal screen. Once you learn how these keys operate, using the menus is easy (key labels are shown in bold text in this chapter):

To select a displayed menu choice, press the function key (f1 - f5) which corresponds to the function key label.

•When there are more than five menu choices, function key f6 becomes labeled MORE. Press MORE to display the next group of choices. By repeatedly pressing MORE you can display all groups of choices. After you have displayed all groups of choices, pressing MORE again returns to the first group of choices.

•Whenever the screen is requesting information (input prompt) such as Enter the device’s logical address, just type the information and press Return (may be Enter on a terminal emulator).

If you pressed the wrong menu key and do not want to enter the requested information, you can escape the input prompt and stay at the same menu level by pressing ESC or PRV_MENU.

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