Starting and stopping acquisition can be done in a variety of ways. The first way is to use the main menu. Under the Acquisition menu, the user may select Start/Stop Acquisition to toggle acquisition on and off.
Another way to toggle acquisition is to use the mouse to press the ACQ button location on the upper left portion of the System Status dialog. If the ACQ button is green, then acquisition is currently on, otherwise, acquisition is currently off. Regardless of how acquisition is being turned on or off, the ACQ button will always display the current state of acquisition.
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| Acquisition is off. __prod_name is idle. | __prod_name is acquiring data, but not recording data.
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__prod_name is recording data. Recording must be stopped in order to turn off acquisition.
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In Windows 7 and newer, __prod_name's taskbar icon will also have an overlay indicator to indicate the current acquisition state:
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| Both Recording and Acquisition are off
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__prod_name is acquiring data.
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Acquisition can also be toggled by using hot keys. The hot key combination of CTRL+A will toggle acquisition based on the current state.
The final way that acquisition can be turned on or off is by using a __prod_name command. There are two commands that can be used. One to turn on acquisition and one to turn off acquisition. These commands are as follows:
-StartAcquisition
-StopAcquisition
See the __prod_name Control Commands section for more information.
These commands may be part of a configuration file that is being processed or they may be sent to __prod_name via the NetCom interface from an experiment control program. As a general practice, these commands are sent via NetCom, since configuration files are mainly used for setup purposes.
Note : If acquisition is not currently turned on, it will be turned on automatically when recording is started. Recording must be stopped before acquisition can be turned off.