Working with Recall Display

This page lists some of the basic functions of recall display that may be used on a day-to-day basis while interacting with the program. Some of these are pretty obvious (at least to experienced Windows users) and others may be surprising.

Right-Click Menus

Using the right button on your mouse to click within a graph or alpha page will produce a pop-up menu that offers some options appropriate to the object clicked. This is a standard behavior for Windows applications.

Alphanumeric
This menu provides quick access to column visibility and directly to the complete property sheet.
 
Strip Graph
Depending on exactly where you right-click within a strip graph, you will see some form of this menu. The first item is actually a title describing the graph object where the click was detected. If you choose 'Properties' from this menu, the associated tab on the property sheet will automatically be selected.

Status Bar

The status bar is located at the bottom of the recall display window. The status bar presents information in a series of cells, as follows:

Cell # Content
1 Type of recall display page that currently has the focus
2 Strip graph time window
3 Mouse position within a graph
4 Current PICS time
5 Current PICS date
6 Either Bad:Gap or Bad:Hide. Pressing Ctrl+B toggles this setting that controls whether ReDisp will plot whatever value it has when it receives data marked BAD or if ReDisp will leave a gap in the graph where the bad data occurred. This setting is shared by all graphs and is maintained between sessions.

Graph Tips

When looking at a graph, you may determine the time and EU value difference between two points by using the mouse to click and drag between the two points on the graph. When you do this on an analog strip, you should see a tooltip appear like this:

And if you do the same thing over a digital strip, you will see this:

The ranges are only computed within the graph area, so if you drag the mouse outside of the strip the tool tip may either disappear or display a warning (e.g. "Different Strip!").

Printing and Print Setup

The very first time ReDisp is run, it will automatically attempt to select the default printer. If no default printer is installed, then ReDisp will not be able to print. If you wish to print to a different printer than the default, the Print Setup dialog, available under ReDisp's File menu, will allow you to do that. ReDisp uses a system-provided dialog for printer selection, so the dialog may (a) look different than the sample shown below and (b) may include controls that ReDisp does not use (like Orientation, ReDisp allows you to control that page by page, rather than at the printer level). However, all variations of this dialog should allow selection of a printer from some form of list of available printers. That is what ReDisp uses from this dialog.

When ReDisp is terminated, it saves the last printer used, and should automatically select it when the program is restarted.

Quick Time Scale Adjustment

When a strip graph has the focus, the graph's time window will be displayed in the second status bar cell. If you'd like to change only the strip's time window, you may double-click on the time window cell in the status bar to bring up the following time window adjustment dialog:

Properties