Starting and stopping recording 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 Recording to toggle recording on and off.
Another way to toggle recording is to use the mouse to press the REC button location on the upper left portion of the System Status dialog. If the REC button is purple, then recording is currently on, otherwise, recording is currently off. Regardless of how recording is being turned on or off, the REC button will always display the current state of recording.
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| Recording is off. | __prod_name is recording data. |
In Windows 7 and newer, __prod_name's taskbar icon will also have an overlay indicator to indicate the current recording state:
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__prod_name is acquiring data.
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__prod_name is recording data. |
Recording can also be toggled by using hot keys. The hot key combination of CTRL+R will toggle recording based on the current state.
The final way that recording 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 recording and one to turn off recording. These commands are as follows:
-StartRecording
-StopRecording
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.
New Data File Creation
__prod_name will create new data files automatically based on Recording Options or to preserve the integrity of the information contained in a data file. When a data file has had data written to it, and then a setting is changed that would affect the information stored in the data file (e.g. new sapling rate, DSP filter settings, spike threshold, etc.), a new file will be created using the same naming scheme defined in the Recording Options Create New Files Per Recording section. Because of this, changing settings on individual acquisition entities may cause the file numbering to not be synchronized (e.g. a portion of the data in CSC1_002.ncs may contain the same time frame as the data in CSC2_003.ncs if CSC2's DSP filter was changed between recording sessions and CSC1's was not).