With the tab
pTA Settings
active you have the following buttons available:
Select
Mode
:- shows a list of defined modes and prompts for the name of the mode to be in use;
Modify
this
Mode's
Settings
:- modifies the set-up of the currently selected mode;
Show
this
Mode's
Settings
: - shows the set-up of the currently used mode;
Show
Settings
of
Mode
...: - shows a list of defined modes and prompts for the name of the mode to be shown.
Create
Mode
:- creates a new pTA mode.
If an instrument specific template file is available (mode_template_WSNAME.odb
in /userdisk0/musr/exp/td_musr/midas
on the Linux backend computer) mode set-up will be read from the template file. Currently the maximum number of modes is limited to 6;
Copy
Mode
:- does what it says;
Rename
Mode
:- does what it says;
Delete
Mode
:- does what it says;
Save
Mode
:- saves mode into an ASCII file (
*.odb
) in directory /userdisk0/musr/exp/td_musr/midas
on the Linux backend computer;
Restore
Mode
:- reads mode information from an ASCII file (
*.odb
) located in /userdisk0/musr/exp/td_musr/midas
on the Linux backend computer.
- Note:
- A mode must be selected before it may be modified or used for data-acquisition. The last selected mode will be used when data acquisition is started.