WAVE 's main window

This button opens the File menu, containing selections for loading, saving, printing, analyzing, and logging database files. (See File menu.)

This button pops up the View window, which allows you to choose (or merely examine) display scales, grid styles, and annotation, signal, and time display styles. Changes are not effective until the signal window is redrawn. (See View window.)

The Edit menu allows you to specify if annotation editing is to be allowed or forbidden. By default, editing is forbidden when WAVE starts up. (See Edit menu.)

This button brings up the Properties menu, with selections for obtaining information about the current signal and annotation files and about this version of WAVE . (See Properties menu.)

This button recenters the signal window on the previous occurrence of an annotation or marker that matches the entry in the Search for field of the Find window, if any. If no match is found, a notice is posted, but the signal window is not recentered. If the Search for field is empty, any annotation or marker will be counted as a match.

This button scrolls the signal window towards the beginning of the record, by an amount equal to the width of the signal window (i.e., a full screen).

This button scrolls the signal window towards the beginning of the record, by an amount equal to half of the width of the signal window.

This button opens the Find window, which allows you to specify what portion of the current record should be displayed next. You may set a specific start or end time, or you may specify an annotation to be searched for by and buttons.

This button scrolls the signal window towards the end of the record, by an amount equal to half of the width of the signal window.

This button scrolls the signal window towards the end of the record, by an amount equal to the width of the signal window (i.e., a full screen).

This button recenters the signal window on the next occurrence of an annotation or marker that matches the entry in the Search for field of the Find window, if any. If no match is found, a notice is posted, but the signal window is not recentered. If the Search for field is empty, any annotation or marker will be counted as a match.

This button pops up the Help Topics window, containing buttons that name several subjects for which extensive on-line help is available. Choosing a topic allows you to browse through or print the associated help file in a scrollable text window.

WAVE exits when you press this button, after saving your edits if any. If your input file would be overwritten as a result of saving your edits, it is first renamed by prefixing its annotator name with an underscore (`_'). If you have entered annotations but have not specified an annotator, the name by which you invoked this program (normally, `wave') is used for the annotator name.