Where have the defaults gone?

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Previous versions of Temprecord software implemented a "default" set of parameters that could be loaded into the parameters dialog when the settings were read from the logger.  The defaults were more or less like a named parameter set, but there was only one of them, and they didn't have a name.

Although the parameter defaults have effectively been superceded by Named Parameter Sets, in order to preserve the behaviour of existing installations that might be using the old default settings, they are still supported, but with the following changes:

•The defaults are now stored in a Named Parameters Set called (appropriately) Defaults, in a NPS file named Defaults.nps.

•When Temprecord starts, if the Defaults.nps file isn't found, a new one is created, and the parameters filled with whatever the existing parameter defaults were.  This means that the first time you started this version of Temprecord, it read your existing default settings and assigned them to the Defaults.nps file.

•The Default Options tab is still present, but has had additional controls to allow you to load default parameters from a Named Parameters Set and also save the default parameters to a Named Parameters Set.

•The button in the Program/Parameters dialog to load a logger's settings from the defaults is still present and still behaves as it did before.

•The option to load a logger with the defaults when reusing a logger in Auto Mode is still present, and you also now have the option of loading the logger's parameters from any Named Parameters Set in Auto Mode.

See also

Managing Named Parameter sets