Meaningful divisions when zoomed in

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stevenvh
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Meaningful divisions when zoomed in

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When you use windowed zoom it rarely will happen that the edges fall on nicely round timestamps. Most of the time the result will more like this:
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Because PicoScope divides the range in 10 divisions you get the weirdest division markers, like in the screenshot: 75.34 ms, 80.65 ms, 95.95 ms, etc. These are completely meaningless and useless. Wouldn't it be better to have division markers at more rounded numbers, in this case at 80, 90, 100, 110 and 120 ms? I don't care that there aren't exactly ten of them, nor that the window doesn't start at a division marker. The "500ms/div" indicated in the toolbar isn't valid anyway. Maybe you can use divisions of 80, 85, 90, 95, etc ms, in order to have closer to ten divisions.

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Re: Meaningful divisions when zoomed in

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This is already under discussion with the development team, and while it sounds a simple idea it would have implications on other sections of the code. Therefore it needs careful consideration before any implementation.
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