We have an application where the current bounces around a little bit and the multimeter view keeps changing between uA and mA. It would be nice to be able to manually pick a range; similar to how the waveform view can select manual range and preferred prefix.
Hi @dauclair and welcome to the Joulescope forum!
Thank you for the suggestion. I understand the use case and the desire to specify a manual prefix in the Multimeter widget.
My biggest concern with features like this is that people set it and then later (maybe much later) go to use their Joulescope and it’s “broken”. The Waveform widget currently has this problem with the y-axis range and prefix. It’s not clear from the widget whether it is in auto or manual range. You can discover the settings by right-clicking on the y-axis, but that doesn’t help if you have forgotten or even accidentally configured the setting.
Here is what I am thinking:
- Add a context-sensitive menu item Preferred prefix, just like the Waveform widget. The options include auto and the SI prefixes.
- Add an underline under the SI prefix when using a manual preferred prefix.
- Add a tooltip that displays on hover when using a manual preferred prefix.
What do you think? Would this work for you?
Yes, that would work great. I completely understand the need to have a callout to inform the user about non-default/non-just-works settings. FWIW it would be perfectly acceptable to me for the range setting to revert to auto when you closed/reopened the app, though it looks like the Waveform widget settings persist.
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Added issue #335 to track this feature.
We currently do not have a UI release planned for the near future, so I am not sure when this will be offiicially released. I will take a look to see if we can at least implement the feature and release as alpha in the next couple of weeks.