Displays name of currently loaded User Settings (USR) file. If none loaded, field is blank.

Launch dialog to select new USR file to load

Save current user settings to currently loaded USR file. (Use File >> Save User Settings As... from menubar to save current user settings to a new USR file)

Displays name of currently loaded Configuration (CFG) file. If none loaded, field is blank.

Launch dialog to select new CFG file to load.

Save current configuration to currently loaded Configuration (CFG) file. (Use File >> Save Configuration As... from menubar to save current configuration to a new CFG file).

For Grab/Loop modes: number of Frames acquired/to-acquire at current Slice for the current Acq (if using LOOP)

For Grab/Loop modes: number of Slices acquired/to-acquire for the current Acq (if using LOOP)

For Fast Z Imaging, the number of Slices pertains to the current Volume (and Acq)

For Loop mode: specifies time, in seconds, between the start of each Acq

Applies only when Acquisition Start Trigger is self-generated by ScanImage

For Focus/Grab modes: displays time, in seconds, since start of acquisition.

For Loop mode (self-triggered): displays countdown from specified Interval to start of next Acq

For Loop mode (external Start Triggering): displays time since last Acq was externally triggered.

Sets number to append to specified Basename  to create the full filename.

Value is automatically incremented at end of each GRAB or LOOP mode Acq

Value can also be:

• incremented by an external Next File Marker signal
• edited manually

Specifies # of frames to average together before appending single (averaged) frame to current log file.

Value > 1 implies file averaging is enabled.

File averaging capability is separate from the display Rolling Average specified in Image Controls

File averaging implies data reduction: raw data is lost and file size is reduced

FOCUS mode: Continuous acquisition without file-saving, until ABORT is pressed. Used for searching specimen, panning & focusing, etc.

During FOCUS, the following are disabled: file saving, external triggering, volume imaging, multi-ROI imaging.

LOOP mode: Start (or arm) a sequence of acquisitions (for up to the specified number of Acqs).

Globally enables/disable all external acquisition triggering signals for Grab/Loop modes (no effect on FOCUS mode).

The external acquisition triggering signals are configured in the Trigger Controls. If none is configured, this button is disabled.

Displays the current state of ScanImage. Can be one of the following:

• Idle: Not currently in any acquisition mode, waiting for user.
• Grab: Currently executing a single Grab acquisition.
• Loop: Currently executing a Grab acquisition as part of a looped sequence of Grab acquisitions.
• Loop_Wait: Currently in "Loop mode", not currently grabbing frames, but waiting for a trigger to start the next Grab acquisition.
• Point: Currently in "Point mode", with the pockels cell on (if configured), shutters on (if configured), and the Y-axis galvanometer pointed to the center of its range.

Points scanner at center of field-of-view (following specified Shift values), changing button to PARK.

Scanner remains pointed to field center until PARK  is pressed.

Used for scanner alignment

While scanner is pointed, beam power is adjusted to specified level and shutter is opened (if such hardware is configured in Machine Data File)

Enable MROI imaging, for Grab/Loop modes.

Load specified Fast Configuration, i.e. settings of CFG file specified in Fast Configurations window.