Agilent Technologies E4440A manual Types of Spectrum Analyzer Messages, Types of Messages

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Types of Spectrum Analyzer Messages

Types of Spectrum Analyzer Messages

The analyzer can generate various messages that appear on the display during operation.

For a complete list of spectrum analyzer messages, see the Instrument Messages and Functional Tests manual. The following table describes the four types of spectrum analyzer messages.

Table 6-1	Types of Messages
	Type of Message	Location	Notes
	Informational messages	Bottom of the	Messages will remain until the
	typically provide verification	display in the	message is cleared by pressing
	that an action has occurred. In	status line (in	Esc or Preset, or is overwritten
	general, no user intervention is	green on analyzers	by another message.
	required.	with a color
		display).
	Pop-upmessages prompt you	Middle of the	Message remains until you
	to verify that an action will be	display in a	acknowledge the prompt, or the
	performed or tell you that an	framed box.	action is completed.
	action is currently being
	performed.
	Status messages indicate a	Right side of the	Most messages remain only	In
	condition that may result in	display and/or in	until the erroneous condition is
				Case
	erroneous data being displayed.	the SCPI Status	corrected.
	Multiple status messages may	Register system.
	be displayed at the same time.			of
				Difficulty
	made to set a parameter	status line (in	Show Errors, Clear Error Queue),
	User Error messages appear	Bottom of the	Messages remain until you
	when an attempt has been	display in the	clear the error (press System,
	incorrectly or an operation has	yellow on	or another message is displayed
	failed (such as saving a file).	analyzers with a	in the status line.
		color display) and	Pressing the Esc or Preset keys
		in the SCPI Error
			will clear error messages from
		Queue.
			the display, but the messages
			will remain in the error queue.

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