Acquire once and analyse is much quicker compared to acquiring multiple times and try to solve a puzzle from different measurements.
This is the core you hang on to and blow up into such a big issue. There may be some use cases where capturing data outside the screen in a single capture is useful while simultaneously seeing the smaller window in realtime, but it seems to be a very very niche application.
It is certainly not a niche application; there are several others who agree with me. 'Recording outside the screen' is a huge productivity boost for debugging / verifying embedded / mixed signal systems where you usually have a screen crammed full with various signals. You may not see it as such but it is like using shoes with laces versus slippers if you have to walk in & out of the house all the time (without keeping shoes on inside the house). Actually the original SDS2000 had 'recording outside the screen' in the first firmware releases but it would not always retain this setting which was already a nuisance. When dealing with embedded systems there is a need to see what happened before or after whatever is on screen regulary.
Way to chop out the quote just to perpetuate the noise...
Acquire once and analyse is much quicker compared to acquiring multiple times and try to solve a puzzle from different measurements.
This is the core you hang on to and blow up into such a big issue. There may be some use cases where capturing data outside the screen in a single capture is useful while simultaneously seeing the smaller window in realtime, but it seems to be a very very niche application. Even when it is useful (which is not obvious to most users as exampled here) you insist that using a zoom window as the solution (which most scopes support for this use case) is somehow not usable at all.
You can acquire once, using the zoom window or several other options.
- You like to have a narrow time slice on the screen in real time, and then jump back out to see the context around it. We get that.
- You could use the zoom window, and achieve the exact same thing but lose some vertical space while in realtime. Sees both the context and the fine detail simultaneously. When stopped you can close the zoom window and regain all the space again, no different to your memory outside the window approach once stopped.
- You could capture a wider acquisition and navigate down into once stopped.
You've yet to provide any specific examples where its useful to have a realtime view of a narrow time slice of many signals vertically and then once stopped move around the captured. Where both all the signals need to be visible vertically in the realtime
and in a narrow window simultaneously, with the additional constraint that despite wanting realtime view you couldn't view this repetitive event and then take a single capture at a longer acquisition depth.
Either its repetitive and you can deal with spinning the horizontal control to go out to a wider view, or its not repetitive and the realtime view of the narrow segment is your imaginary hard requirement. Looking at a short time base to setup the details of a trigger is normal enough, but then its triggering and you don't need to inspect it any more, then move the acquisition window to capture what you're trying to observe.
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