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Global Settings
To configure MAGNET Field software interface parameters and options applied through all the jobs. The availability of settings depends on the controller type.
To apply all changed settings and open the Home Screen dialog, click
. To close the dialog and keep settings unchanged, click
.
The dialog contains four tabs:
- In the Main tab:
- Select the Port Data Logging check box to log the data exchange between MAGNET Field and the connected device. Changing the status of the Port Data Logging check box will force you to reconnect the device after you click
.
- Select the Enable Job History check box to store the field measurements on the job to the jobhistory.xml file. The default file location: \MAGNET Field\Jobs\<job_name>.
- Choose desired date and time representation formats from the corresponding drop-down lists. Select Regional option to match date and time representation formats with the operational system. Your current choice with actual date and time displays under drop-down lists.
- Select the Custom MyDocuments folder check box to define a location of custom folder for data storage. With the Custom MyDocuments folder check box selected, click
to open the Select new MyDocuments folder dialog and choose a new folder for data storage. Clear the check box to reset the data storage location to the default folder.
- Select a desired language for MAGNET Field interface and help from the Select Language drop-down list.
This drop-down list is available, if you selected additional languages in MAGNET Field installation.
- In the Theme tab:
- Select the Use Bold Font check box to display the text in bold font style.
- Select the Full Screen check box to switch in full screen mode.
- Select the Button Sound check box to enable sound effects when you click any functional button.
- From the Color Scheme drop-down list, select a color for screen background. Available colors: Dark, Gold, Blue, Silver, Green.
- In the Job tab:
- Set parameters for automatic importing to a new job from the current job:
- Continue Point Name Numbering check box affects the name of the first point in a new job in the Topo dialog. If the check box is selected, the point naming will continue from the last open job.
- Example: the name of the final point in previous job is “84”; the increment value is “9”; the name of the new job’s start point will be “93”.
- In the Keyboard tab:
- Select the MAGNET Keyboard check box to enable typing with the on-screen keyboard. It displays automatically when editing values.
- In the Keyboard type list you can select the QWERTY, AZERTY or Cyrillic keyboard layouts. If the MAGNET Keyboard check box is unchecked, the on-screen keyboard will not display, no matter which keyboard layouts are selected in the Keyboard type list.
To switch between layouts of the on-screen keyboard, use the switch buttons in the header of the onscreen keyboard.
When working with the QWERTY or AZERTY layout, you can enter characters that are non-specific to the English alphabet: for example, the È, Ü, ẞ characters. For that, long press (press and hold) on the letter and choose the character by sliding your pointer to the letter of your choice:
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