The main GUI program

Start Applications->Education->ExpEYES-17 from the menu. A four channel oscilloscope screen with several extra features will open as shown in the figure. Various experiments can be selected from the menu.

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The ExpEYES-17 main GUI

The main window looks like a low frequency four channel oscilloscope, with some extra features, on the right side panel. Applications for various experiments can be selected from the pulldown menu. A brief description of the oscilloscope program is given below.

In addition to the Oscilloscope, there are several measurement/control options available on the GUI, they are explained below.

The top menu of the Main Window

The top of the window contains a menu to change the current experimental setup: every entry in this menu is a category of experiments, like School experiments, Electronics, Electrical, and so on... except the leftmost entry "Device", which contains special commands.

The Device submenus

When one triggers the "Device" menu, new submenus appear:

  • Reconnect: try to synchronize the computer and Eyes17 after a reconnection.
  • Light Background: allows one to use a light background to display the traces. Any selected experiment is forgotten, and the default user interface is re-initialised instead.
  • Dark Background: it is the same, but one gets a dark background to display the traces.
  • Choose language: this allows one to select the language for the user interface and for the help files.
  • Screen shot: one can take a snapshot from the complete Graphic User Interface, or just from the oscilloscope's display (respective keyboard shortcuts are Alt-S and Alt-P). In the special case when English language and Dark Background are set, an additional dialog will let one create automatically a set of snapshots translated to every language supported by Eyes17, on dark and on light backgrounds, in SVG (vectorial) and PNG (pixmap) formats. This feature is rather fast, and it can generate a lot of data. One can dismiss it easily.
  • Credits: this opens a window with credits for authors and contributors of ExpEYES-17.