Composite window

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The composite window allows you to display the contents of up to four instrument windows at any one time in the same window. This is particularly useful when you want to compare screen traces, or print out the contents of more than one window on the same page.

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You can control what combination of window data is displayed in the composite window, and in what order it is displayed. The following options - accessed from the Layout drop-down list in the Options... menu in Settings - are available for the composite window:

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Auto select
Select whichever format is appropriate, based on what the windows have in common  

2ball6b Overlay views
Useful if you wish to compare two versions of traces taken with the same measurement and scaling parameters  

2ball6b Side by side (max 2)
Allows you to compare two traces with the same amplitude  

2ball6b One above another (max 4)
Useful if you need to collate the X (time or frequency) axis for several signals. The maximum amount of window data you can display is four sets  

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Display up to four sets of window data in a square  

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