DigiView™ Navigation Cursors

Cursors ( Markers)

Markers have several uses. They can be used to measure time, to 'bookmark' locations and to help bring data to the center of the screen.

Drag to place - Simply click on a marker and drag it to the area of interest. You can grab the marker itself (the vertical line in the waveform area) or its 'flag' (the rectangle at the top of the window). Notice that the flags are offset so that even when they are overlapped, you can still grab them. When your mouse is in the capture zone for a marker, the cursor changes to indicate that it is over a marker. The cursor also indicates which marker would be selected, making it easier to grab a specific marker when they are very close together (or even on top of each other).

Quick Select Flags - Sometimes markers are invisible, buried behind other markers or off-screen. You can easily grab any marker from the quick-select flags at the top right corner of the window, regardless of their current position or visibility.

Dragging from these flags will bring the marker to the current screen position and make it visible if necessary. Clicking on one of these flags will automatically scroll the waveform view to the markers position and center it in the waveform window. This can also be referred to as "Jump to Marker".

Auto-Snap - 'Snapping' the markers to signal edges makes it easy to measure the time between them or to bring a specific edge to the center of the window. This operation is used so often that we optimized it by making it an automatic function.

When you are dragging a marker and your mouse is over a waveform, the cursor changes to a 'snap-left' or 'snap-right' arrow. The direction of the arrow shows you which edge (previous or next) of this waveform the marker will 'snap' to if you were to drop it at that point. The arrow will point to the nearest edge or to the nearest edge in the direction of mouse movement, even if that edge is off-screen.

If you do NOT want to SNAP, but rather wish to drop the marker exactly at the mouse position, you can either hold down the control key or move your mouse above or below all waveforms before releasing the mouse button.

Auto-Snap & Bring to Center - Hold the SHIFT key when 'Snapping' the markers to force the "snapped-to" edge to the center of the screen. This is extremely convenient when the next edge is not visible in the waveform window or if you want to use a marker that doesn't have a "tack" option.

Drop & Bring to Center - Hold both the SHIFT key and the CTRL key when dragging a marker to "drop" the marker and bring the drop point and marker to the center of the screen.

Status Window - The Status window shows the current time of each marker (relative to TRIGGER) as well as the time between adjacent markers.