Thanks! Glad to hear the program is being put to good use.
On the 2 sliders: I agree it would be convenient, the only problem is that the right toggle
selects the menu, so if that were dedicated to changing the timebase, how would you get
out of it? Perhaps a certain mode could be engaged (and disengaged) where things would
work this way. Problem is there’s just too few controls. Will give it some thought, maybe
there’s a simple way of doing it.
Not sure what you mean by “vertical line drawings”. If you mean the vertical rise of the
waveform not showing on a CRT type scope if the rise time is fast enough, I guess this could
be emulated, not sure if it would be desirable, though. On a digitally sampled signal, the
program does not know how fast the “step” is, only that it changed from one value to another.
The original author did DIM vertical traces if they were greater than a few steps, giving them a
“thinning effect”. Thought it gave a nice effect so I kept it.
On generating binary patterns, thought about it, at one point actually used the arbitrary
wave generator to do this, using 0’s and 4095’s (limited to 720 clock pulses and of course
the pattern keeps repeating). Would be simple enough to just read a binary stream from a file
and output it with an adjustable bit rate.
In short, there is almost no end to what we can come up with, been trying to implement things
that are relatively simple and don’t use too much code.
At any rate, just finished and will shortly be posting a “speed optimized” version using 3 slots with the rest
of the code in the undocumented area of earlier devices, in such a way as to be compatible with V2.81
hardware, PAWN and the Alterbios plug-in. Version will also add extended time base up to 10 min/div
in the form of a “chart” mode.