Abstract: A measuring device contains a control unit, a display unit and an input unit. The input unit serves in this context for the input of user entries. The control unit is accordingly embodied to display a user dialog with several dialog elements by means of the display unit. Furthermore, the control unit provides a dialog-processing unit which is embodied to specify dialog elements to be displayed in the user dialog on the basis of a first user entry which specifies a size of the display of the user dialog.

Abstract: The measuring machine according to the invention has a display device (2), a processing device, and at least one measurement channel. The processing device measures the measurement signal (54, 55) of the at least one measurement channel. The display device (2) displays the measurement signal (54, 55) of the at least one measurement channel as a chart (50, 51). A plurality of charts (50, 51) can thereby be displayed at once. The display device (2) additionally displays preview charts (13, 14). The preview diagrams (13, 14) are scaled representations of the diagrams (50, 51). The plurality of diagrams (50, 51) can be displayed cascaded and/or horizontally tiled and/or vertically tiled. The multiple plots (50, 51) can be displayed at different, preferably arbitrary positions of the display device (2).