Spectral analysis

Hi,

I am familiar with computing the spectrum of a real time signal using FFT
after windowing it using a window such as hamming to increase the resolution
of the spectrum, however I need to compute the spectrum of a complex
signal, can anybody explain how to window a complex signal before computing
the FFT.

Thanks

Tom


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