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78e14473 1.TH PULSEVIEW 1 "March 4, 2017"
94236aa4 2.SH "NAME"
e65ff35e 3PulseView \- Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok
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228a5480 5.B pulseview \fR[\fBOPTIONS\fR] [\fBfile.sr\fR]
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6.SH "DESCRIPTION"
7.B PulseView
8is a cross-platform Qt-based GUI for the
9.B sigrok
10software suite for test and measurement equipment such as logic analyzers,
e65ff35e 11oscilloscopes, MSOs, and more.
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12.SH "OPTIONS"
13.B PulseView
14has very few command line options, as most configuration elements are
15available from the GUI itself.
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16.sp
17If the optional \fBfile.sr\fR argument is supplied, PulseView tries to open
18the specified file. It has to be in the "libsigrok session" format.
19.TP
20.B "\-l, \-\-loglevel"
21Set the libsigrok and libsigrokdecode loglevel. At the moment PulseView
22doesn't support setting the two loglevels independently. The higher the
23number, the more debug output will be printed. Valid loglevels are:
24.sp
25\fB0\fP None
26.br
27\fB1\fP Error
28.br
29\fB2\fP Warnings
30.br
31\fB3\fP Informational
32.br
33\fB4\fP Debug
34.br
35\fB5\fP Spew
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36.TP
37.B "\-h, \-?, \-\-help"
38Show a help text and exit.
39.TP
40.B "\-V, \-\-version"
41Show version information and exit.
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42.TP
43.BR "\-i, \-\-input\-file " <filename>
44Load input from a file. If the
45.B \-\-input\-format
228a5480 46option is not supplied, PulseView attempts to load the file as a sigrok session
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47file.
48.TP
49.BR "\-I, \-\-input\-format " <format>
50Specifies the format of the input file to be loaded.
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51.SH "KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS"
52.TP
53.B "f"
54Zoom-to-fit.
55.TP
56.B "o"
57Zoom 1:1.
58.TP
59.B "s"
60Enable / disable sticky scrolling.
61.TP
62.B "c"
63Show / hide cursors.
64.TP
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65.B "b"
66Toggle between coloured trace backgrounds and alternating light/dark
67gray trace backgrounds.
68.TP
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69.B "SPACE"
70Start / stop an acquisition.
71.TP
72.B "ALT"
73Show / hide the menu.
74.TP
75.B "Arrow keys"
76Scroll up/down/left/right.
77.TP
78.B "CTRL+o"
79Open file.
80.TP
81.B "CTRL+s"
82Save as...
83.TP
84.B "CTRL+r"
85Save selected range as...
86.TP
87.B "CTRL+g"
88Group all currently selected traces into a trace group.
89.TP
90.B "CTRL+u"
91Ungroup the traces in the currently selected trace group.
92.TP
93.B "CTRL++"
94Zoom in.
95.TP
96.B "CTRL+-"
97Zoom out.
98.TP
99.B "CTRL+q"
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100Quit, i.e. shutdown PulseView (closing all session tabs).
101.TP
102.B "CTRL+w"
103Close the current session tab.
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104.SH "EXIT STATUS"
105.B PulseView
106exits with 0 on success, 1 on most failures.
107.SH "SEE ALSO"
e65ff35e 108\fBsigrok\-cli\fP(1)
94236aa4 109.SH "BUGS"
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110Please report any bugs via Bugzilla
111.RB "(" http://sigrok.org/bugzilla ")"
112or on the sigrok\-devel mailing list
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113.RB "(" sigrok\-devel@lists.souceforge.net ")."
114.SH "LICENSE"
115.B PulseView
0ec7aba5 116is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3 or later.
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117.SH "AUTHORS"
118Please see the individual source code files.
119.PP
120This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann\-uwe.de>.
121It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).