KERN & SOHN SCD-4.0 User Manual
KERN & Sohn GmbH
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D-72336 Balingen
E-Mail: info@kern-sohn.com
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Instruction Manual
KERN PC-Software
Balance Connection SCD-4.0
Software-Version 4.1.3
12/2014
GB
SCD-BA-e-1444
GB
KERN PC-Software
Balance Connection SCD-4.0
Software-Version 4.1.3
Instruction Manual
Contents
1 Hardware and software requirements ......................................................... 3
2 Installation ...................................................................................................... 3
3 Operation ........................................................................................................ 6
3.1 Program start ............................................................................................................................ 6
3.2 “Select application“ window ................................................................................................... 7
3.2.1 Saving and restoring the target window ...................................................................................... 8
3.3 “Balance“ window .................................................................................................................... 9
3.3.1 Select predefined type of balance .............................................................................................. 9
3.3.2 Adding additional types of balances ......................................................................................... 10
3.4 “Interface settings“ window .................................................................................................. 12
3.5 “Data transfer“ window ......................................................................................................... 15
4 Application examples .................................................................................. 16
4.1 Data transmission from a KERN balance to Microsoft EXCEL .......................................... 16
4.2 Importing measuring values into text file ............................................................................ 18
5 Software Licence Agreement ...................................................................... 21
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1 Hardware and software requirements
Software requirements:
Operating system: starting from Microsoft Windows XP (Windows Vista, 7, 8, …)
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (included in delivery)
Hardware requirements:
Free serial interface port (RS232)
2 Installation
Insert CD in the CD-ROM drive.
To start the program execute “setup.exe“ file.
Select the language (German English).
Click on NEXT.
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If you accept the terms below, click „I accept the agreement“, then „Next“.
Select Installation Folder. Click on NEXT.
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Select Additonal Tasks. Click on NEXT.
Click on INSTALL.
After a successful installation process appears the following window:
Finally click on FINISH.
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3 Operation
Start program with click on Desktop-Symbol
or via the start menu.
Click on this icon in order to change the language (German English).
Click on this icon in order to disable/enable the help function for the user interface.
Click on this icon in order to display information about the program.
Click on this icon in order to finish the program.
Default remote control command: Balance is receiving stable weighing values only.
Default remote control command: Balance is receiving instable and stable weighing values.
Default remote control command: Sending balance command for taring.
A green LED indicates that the interface is open, a red LED that it is closed.
3.1 Program start
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3.2 “Select application“ window
The software asks you to select the application to which you wish to transmit data.
Selecting an application is quite simple. Start your application program, keep it
opened in the background and left-click your mouse, keeping the mouse button
pressed down, so that you can drag the searching tool with your selected application
to the window of your application and then release the mouse button. Afterwards the
application selected by you will appear in the box under SELECTED APPLICATION (e.g.
Microsoft Excel).
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3.2.1 Saving and restoring the target window
When you close the process or the corresponding window selected in the software,
the program loses the connection to the window, until you manually select a new
window again.
If you want the program to remember the target window by some specific properties
and restore the target window upon restart, you have to define those properties.
There are three ways how a target window can be identified:
Process name (selected application):
The name of the process / name of the executable file of the target
application. A filter based on this property cannot distinguish between different
instances of the same application.
Window class:
The programmer of an application can assign a window “class” to a window.
This window class is often more specific than the name of the application.
Window title:
The text in the title of a window. The title often changes depending on the
current state of the target application. Excel, for example, includes the name
of the currently opened document in the window title.
The text required to be matched by one of those criteria is defined in the
corresponding textbox:
To enable filtering by a property, click on the disk symbol next to the textbox.
An active filter is displayed with a green disk symbol.
After activating a filter, you can adjust the filter text in the textbox.
As an example, the following entry matches all windows, whose title contains the
word “Measurement”, regardless of which program owns the window (Microsoft Excel
or Word).
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