Placing Main and Secondary Cursors
You can place the main cursor with a single left-click in the Wave window.
To place a secondary cursor, Ctrl+Click, hold the waveform, and drag either left or right. You can see a flag that labels the location at the top of the cursor. Alternatively, you can hold the Shift key and click a point in the waveform.
If the secondary cursor is not already on, this action sets the secondary cursor to the present location of the main cursor and places the main cursor at the location of the mouse click.
Moving Cursors
To move a cursor, hover over the cursor until you see the grab symbol, and click and drag the cursor to the new location.
As you drag the cursor in the Wave window, you see a hollow or filled-in circle if the Snap to Transition waveform setting is selected, which is the default behavior.
- A hollow circle
under the mouse
indicates that you are between transitions in the waveform of the selected
signal. - A filled-in circle
under the mouse
indicates that the cursor is locked in on a transition of the waveform under the
mouse or on a marker.
A secondary cursor can be hidden by clicking anywhere in the Wave window where there is no cursor, marker, or floating ruler.
Finding the Next or Previous Transition on a Waveform
The Waveform window contains buttons for jumping the main cursor to the next or previous transition of the selected waveform or from the current position of the cursor.
To move the main cursor to the next or previous transition of a waveform:
- Ensure the wave object in the waveform is active by clicking the name.
This selects the wave object, and the waveform display of the object displays with a thicker line than usual.
- Click the Next Transition or Previous
Transition
buttons in the
waveform toolbar (?), or use the right or left keyboard arrow key to move to the
next or previous transition, respectively. Tip: You can jump to the nearest transition of a set of waveforms by selecting multiple wave objects together.