Current Page: NeXtMidas User's Guide Basic Concepts Summary of Capabilities
| ### Summary of Capabilities Following is a terse list of the most significant NeXtMidas capabilities with references to where more detailed information can be found: Session Continuity NeXtMidas infrastructure provides much of the "glue" that holds a session together. The most visible component of this infrastructure is the shell. See Shell for a complete description of how to take advantage of the NeXtMidas shell. Expandable Command Libraries NeXtMidas' ever increasing set of commands to perform signal acquisition, processing, and display are organized into options trees. See Option Trees for a general description of the option tree concept. Information about the commands contained in a specific option tree can be found at `$NMROOT/htdocs/help/index.html` Flexible Data I/O Most signal data manipulated by NeXtMidas is stored in the portable BLUE file format (see Signal Files), but there's also provision for saving small, transient datasets in memory as result parameters (see Results Parameters). Versatile Command Interpreter The NeXtMidas command language defines verbs, parameters, and switches, which can be entered in a variety of convenient ways. See System Operation to learn how to minimize the amount of typing and memorization you must do. Macro Programmability Casual users can easily create new NeXtMidas commands using the built-in macro programming language. See Macros for a complete description of NeXtMidas macro programming. Graphics The primary purpose of NeXtMidas is to create graphical displays with embedded controls, as described in Graphics. Interoperability NeXtMidas is interoperable with X-Midas (see Interoperability with X-Midas) and gets along well with certain commercial applications (see Compatibility with Third-Party Software). Help In addition to this online help, other information is available in NeXtMidas User's Guide, NeXtMidas Installation Guide, NeXtMidas Software Technical Manual, and the software release notes.