Introduction. Agilent Technologies 8712ES, 8714ET, 8714ES, 8712ET

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Using Graphics

Introduction

Introduction

The analyzer has a set of user graphics commands that can be used to create graphics and messages on the display. The GRAPHICS example program in the Example Programs Guide uses some of these commands to draw a simple setup diagram. These commands, listed below, are of the form:

DISPlay:WINDow[1|2|10]:GRAPhics:<mnemonic>.

The number specified in the WINDow part of the command selects where the graphics are to be written.

WINDow1 draws the graphics to the channel 1 measurement screen. (This is the default if no window is specified in the mnemonic.)

WINDow2

WINDow10 draws the graphics to the channel 2 measurement screen.

draws the graphics to an IBASIC display partition. The graphics can only be output in red on a PCL printer.

When graphics commands are used to write directly to a measurement screen, they write to the static graphics plane (the same plane where the graticule is drawn). There is no sweep-to-sweep speed penalty once the graphics have been drawn.

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Using Graphics

Introduction

Unless otherwise specified, the graphics commands listed below start at the current pen location. All sizes are dimensioned in pixels.

DISPlay:WINDow[1|2|10]:GRAPhics:CIRCle <y_radius>

DISPlay:WINDow[1|2|10]:GRAPhics:CLEar

DISPlay:WINDow[1|2|10]:GRAPhics:COLor <pen>

• color choices are: 0 for erase, 1 for bright, 2 for dim

DISPlay:WINDow[1|2|10]:GRAPhics[:DRAW] <new_x>,<new_y>

DISPlay:WINDow[1|2|10]:GRAPhics:LABel <string>

DISPlay:WINDow[1|2|10]:GRAPhics:LABel:FONT <font>

• font choices are: SMALl , HSMall , NORMal , HNORmal , BOLD , HBOLd ,

SLANt , HSLant ( H as the first letter of the font name indicates highlighted text – inverse video).

DISPlay:WINDow[1|2|10]:GRAPhics:MOVE <new_x>,<new_y>

DISPlay:WINDow[1|2|10]:GRAPhics:RECTangle

<width>,<height>

DISPlay:WINDow[1|2|10]:GRAPhics:SCALe

<xmin>,<xmax>,<ymin>,<ymax>

DISPlay:WINDow[1|2|10]:GRAPhics:STATe?

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