Setup Control Buttons

When you set up one of the standard experiments, there are five buttons at the top of the Setup dialog box. These five controls are independent of which technique you are setting up. They control the Setup box itself, or to control the saving/recalling of parameter sets from your computer's disk.

• DefaultThe Default button in the Setup dialog box restores all the parameters on the screen to their default values. Use it to fix typing errors or find out previous values for a parameter you already retyped. The default values are the values as specified by the Explain script. All of the standard scripts perform an automatic restore of the last used values. These are the values first shown to the user. In order to get to the values specified by the script, use the Default button.
• SaveThe Save button saves the current parameter set on your disk. This is useful when you are running repetitive tests. Parameter sets are stored in a file with a ".SET" file name extension. More than one parameter set can be stored in each file, with the set distinguished by a Set Name. This system is a powerful tool for organizing your experimental setups. For example, different workers in a lab can have their own setup files ("JOE.SET", "KAREN.SET", etc.). Within her file, Karen can save multiple parameter sets under descriptive Set Names ("C1010 Noise", "Fast Noise", etc.). Selecting Save opens a dialog box which requests the name of the file where you wish to save the parameter set, and the Set Name within in the file. Once you are satisfied with the names, selecting OK saves the set in the specified file. Be sure that you specify both the file name ( .SET ) and the SET within that file!
• RestoreThe Restore button recovers a parameter set from your disk. This is useful when you are running repetitive tests. Selecting Restore opens a dialog box which requests the name of the file where your parameter set has been saved, and the Set Name within the file. When you are satisfied with the names, selecting OK recalls the set from the specified file. Be sure that you specify both the file name ( .SET ) and the SET within that file!
• OKSelecting OK accepts the parameters currently shown in the Setup, remembers them so they do not have to be re-entered next time, closes the Setup dialog box, and continues with the next phase of the script. This may be running the experiment, or opening another Setup dialog.
• CancelSelecting Cancel aborts the Setup menu without saving any entered parameters.