NVGate Ribbons: Preferences

User group

These buttons provide direct access to the user’s preferences.

The user’s preferences are gathered in one unique dialog with multiple tabs. Following buttons provide direct access to the user’s preferences:

	General: Enter the preferences setting at the 1^st tab. It allows customizing the scales font size, the refreshing speed as well as default specialized modes.
	Properties manager: Open the measurement properties setup. This tool allows managing the default and user defined properties. These property values are saved with the measurement and used to qualify it. Later, they may be incorporated into reports and for search functions.
	Units & Quantities: Open the "Physical quantity" tab of the user’s preferences. It allows creating, modifying and removing the units and physical quantities used by the NVGate interface. Reminder: NVGate process SI units. The selected Units are used for display only, the data are not modified by the units changes.
	Marker: Open the "Marker" tab of the user’s preferences. It allows changing the appearance and the number of the different marker types.
	Graph: Open the "Graph" tab of the user’s preferences. It allows changing the appearance of the different graph types.
	Window: Open the "Window" tab of the user’s preferences. It allows changing the appearance of the windows, their default arrangement, the number and style of the cursors.

See User Preferences for details.

This group manages the transducers database which is used by NVGate to automatically setup the inputs and trace front-end status at measurement time.

	Database: Opens the transducer database saved on the computer.
	Merge: Merge multiple transducer databases into one. The merged .cdb is the one currently used by NVGate (file: TransducerDB.cdb located in the NVGate.exe directory)
	Export: Allows exporting the current database (file: TransducerDB.cdb located in the NVGate.exe directory) in csv format.

	Workspace: show/hide the workspace window that contains the Analyzer Setting Browser (ASB), the Project Manager (PM) and the Control Panel (CP).
	Log window: This window tracks all changes in the analyzer. Logs are arranged in 3 separate tabs: Analyzer settings: Display all users’ and dependencies related changes in the ASB. Warning: Displays dynamic warnings related to the current setup (for example: A & C acoustic filters are no more available when the sampling frequency is lower than 25.6 kHz). Raising a warning will automatically show the log window during 3 sec. Macro trace: log window for macro execution and debugging.
	Status: Displays the current status of the plug-ins (see chapter 1 ASB for details). General statuses are displayed in the bottom status bar, the Status window is made to show advanced status for accurate control of the acquisition/analyses. To add the statuses in this window, right click in the selected plug-in and select View states.