Data List and Statistics Views

The Data List and Statistics views are designed for simple runtime debugging of component ports.

1. To open the Data List view, right-click a port of a started component.

   

2. From the context menu, select Data List.

   The Data List view is opened:

   

3. Select the preferred capture type:

   • Number of Samples: Select a sample size
   • Indefinitely: Collect until the user stops the process.

4. Select the Number of Dimensions of the sample data:

   • Real
   • Complex
   • any positive integer number of dimensions

5. Click Start Acquire.

   After all desired samples have been acquired and displayed in the Data List table, two additional options are displayed:

   • Save
   • Chart

6. To open a wizard and write the data to a Midas BLUE file or a binary file, click Save.

7. To open the Statistics view, which features a histogram and basic statistics of the sample data, click Chart:

   

8. There are two ways to change the dimensions displayed in the Statistics view:

   • In the Data List view, click the column headers.

   • In the Statistics view, from the View menu, select Settings. This opens the Chart Options dialog. In the Chart Options dialog, change the categories displayed in the chart:

     

     The chart and basic statistics refresh with each new collection of data in the Data List view.