BSL PRO 4 Manual - Biopac

Part A — Getting Started 63BSL PRO supports horizontal and vertical scrolling using the scrollwheels on the mouse. Scrolling issupported in graph windows, journal windows, the event list in the event palette, and a number of otherdialogs and windows that contain scrollable lists. A dynamic zoom operation can easily be performed inan BSL PRO graph channel by holding down the Ctrl key (PC) or the Option key (Mac). Scroll ‘up’ tozoom in and ‘down’ to zoom out. (Zoom operation supported in BSL PRO and higher)Mac OS X: To increase the scroll speed, hold down the “Option” key while using the scrollwheel.Transformation historyThe transformation history functionality in BSL PRO and higher provides the ability to tracktransformations that are performed on channel data. This gives a visual indicator of whethertransformations have been applied to a channel and a record of the sequence of transformations and theparameters for the transformation. The history for the channel is viewed in the "Channel Info..." dialog.This dialog is accessible via the Channel Info option of the context menu or the Display > Channel Infomenu item. This dialog replaces the "Statistics" dialog used in earlier versions.Cancelling Transformations & Transformation Progress BarIn BSL PRO and higher, transformation cancel support has been restored to the software to offerCancel buttons in progress dialogs that indicate the completion status of threaded transformations.Progress dialogs have also been enhanced so the textual message includes a graphical progress barwith the percentage that is completed. If the progress message does not contain a percentage, anindeterminate progress bar will be displayed.BSL PRO and higher extends the analysis package to display dialogs while analysis routines are inprogress. This progress dialog contains a cancel button which may be used to terminate the analysisbefore it is complete.The event tool allows events to be inserted on a graph with the mouse. When performing eventediting, three new context menu shortcuts have been added to help make the process quicker:• Assign Current Event Type: Right-click an area with no data to set the type of event that willbe inserted on the next left-click of the mouse.• Event Palette: Toggles event palette displays.• Edit event: Right-click a specific event to open the event palette to Selected Event controlsfor the event that was right-clicked.Typed event label drawing improvementsStarting with BSL PRO, the Event system has been enhanced to allow different drawing options forchannel-specific events when they are drawn in the data plotting area. These drawing options areapplied to event labels, event amplitude markings, and event time location text. The followingdrawing options may be customized:• Font (including family, size, italic/bold, and otheroptions)• Rotation angle of text baseline• Text alignment (left, center, right)BSL PRO Manual