Junior Datalogging Insight Focus on the Movie Window Graphics

The animation feature in the Movie Window is a major innovation for motivating pupils interest in the information obtainable from sensors, tables and graphs in Junior Datalogging Insight.

Cartoon characters also help to display numbers in the Digits Window.

Junior Datalogging Insight has 16 Movie Scenes to choose from, so that you can view your graph data in a visual way.

For example

Open the Fireman.ism example file.

Click on a nudge curser arrow.

This gives you a cursor line for the graph window.

Move the mouse pointer to the graph window. A line appears on the graph.

Move the curser to the left and right and watch the Movie window.

When the data is at the left of the graph (lowest data) the fireman is at the bottom of the ladder.

When the cursor is at the right of the graph (highest data) the fireman reaches the cat and carries her down the ladder.

The cartoons in the Movie Window can also display live data collected from attached dataloggers.

The cartoons can also be displayed by the data in the Table Window.

The other Movie Windows work in a similar way, showing the data rise and fall by slowing down or speeding up or changing other movement on the screen as appropriate.

If a Movie Window is not already displayed, go to the View menu and choose Movie.

A few of the Movie Window examples let you compare two sets of data against each other.

For example see Dragon 3.ism where the two dragons race each other:

To change the animated cartoon which is displayed in the Movie Window, click on the Movie Window and change the choice in the Movie dialogue box which is displayed.

The 16 Movie Windows

Aliens - Input 1 controls the movement of the aliens into the flying saucer.

Balloon - Input 1 controls the size of the balloon.

Boxing - Input 1 controls the speed of the punch.

Charmer - Input 1 controls the charmer. Input 2 controls the snake.

Dragon 1 - Input 1 controls the position of Bertie the dragon.

Dragon 2 - Input 1 controls the speed of Gertie the dragon.

Dragon 3 - Input 1 controls the speed of Gertie. Input 2 controls the speed of Bertie.

Elephant - Input 1 controls the position of the elephant.

Fireman - Input 1 controls the fireman up the ladder to rescue the cat.

Gerbil - Input 1 controls the running speed of the gerbil.

Jack - Input 1 controls the position of jack on the beanstalk.

Mouse - Input 1 controls the position of the mouse on the stairs.

Rapunzel - Input 1 controls the position of the prince.

Rocket - Input 1 controls the height of the rocket.

Trolley - Input 1 controls the speed of the trolley.

Tug of War - Input 1 controls pulling to the right. Input 2 controls pulling to the left.

Focus on the Digits Window

For some users a large clear readout of the data being collected or analysed can be useful. In Junior Datalagging Insight you can show a large Digits Window and link the display to characters used in the Movie Window to help make the display even easier to follow.

If the Digits Window is not already displayed, go to the View Menu and choose Digits.

Right click in the Digits Window that appears and choose Pictures. A dialogue box will appear to let you link suitable graphics to your data.

Digits pictures available in Junior Datalogging Insight