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SMART Spectro Operator’s Manual 2.11 23

 THE DISPLAY & THE MENUS

The display allows menu selections to be viewed and chosen. These choices

instruct the spectrophotometer to perform speciﬁ c tasks. The menus are viewed

in the display using a general format which is followed from one menu to the

next. Each menu is a list of choices or selections.

There are ﬁ ve lines in the display. The top line in each menu is a title or pertinent

instruction. The top line does not change unless a new menu is selected. The

second line is used in two ways. One way is to display additional information if

the top line is insufﬁ cient. The second line is also used to display menu choices.

The three additional lines are also used for menu choices.

DISPLAY

TESTING MENU Title or InstrucƟ on

FIRST CHOICE

SECOND CHOICE Menu Choice Window

THIRD CHOICE

AND ANOTHER

AND SO ON

END OF LIST

Think of the menu choices as a vertical list in the display which moves up or

down each time an arrow button is pressed. This list or menu is viewed through

a window, the menu choice window, in the display. Pushing the arrow buttons

brings another portion of the menu into menu choice window. This is referred to

as scrolling through the menu.

TESTING MENU TESTING MENU TESTING MENU

* FIRST CHOICE SECOND CHOICE ANOTHER

SECOND CHOICE * ANOTHER AND ANOTHER

ANOTHER AND ANOTHER * AND SO ON

AND ANOTHER AND SO ON END OF LIST

AND SO ON END OF LIST

END OF LIST

An asterisk, “*”, will start in the far left position of the top line in the menu choice

window. As the menu is scrolled through, different choices appear next to the

“*”. The “*” in the display corresponds with the *ENTER button. Pushing the

*ENTER button selects the menu choice which is adjacent to the “*” in the

menu choice window.

As described previously, the EXIT button allows an exit or escape from the

current menu and a return to the previous menu. This allows a rapid exit from an