Patent ID: 7065464

Claim:
A measuring device comprising: a plurality of functional units, wherein several adjustment parameters are provided for at least some of the functional units, and wherein changes to the adjustment parameters are entered via dialog windows, a control device configured to control setting of the adjustment parameters, and a visual display device capable of displaying the dialog windows, wherein each newly opened dialog window is allocated to a soft key and a current definition of the soft keys is displayed on the display device by means of icons, by means of which a relevant dialog window can be moved to a foreground of the display device, and wherein operating elements for functions, corresponding to the adjustment parameters for one of the functional units, are presented together in the dialog window, in the event of a complete allocation of all said soft keys to the dialog windows, if a further dialog window is opened, a least active dialog window is closed, and a soft key associated with the closed dialog window is allocated to the new dialog window.