To configure the general properties of a controller, select it from the list of controllers and click on the tab at the bottom-left corner of the screen, as shown below:
A new window will open, allowing you to edit the properties of the controller, as shown below:
Each field in this section is described in the table below:
| Field | Description | ||||||||||||||||
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| Name | The name of the controller | ||||||||||||||||
| Dequeue time | The frequency (in milliseconds) that the controller's dequeue timer checks the data buffer | ||||||||||||||||
| Dequeue linger | Determines whether or not the dequeue timer is reset whenever any input receives data | ||||||||||||||||
| Timestamp format | Defines a string to place before every line of data when it is dequeued. The string can contain any or all of the following variables:
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| Timestamp in UTC | Indicates that the UTC time should be used as the time stamp, rather than the local time (default) | ||||||||||||||||
| Timestamp encoding | Selects the type of encoding to use during conversion of byte array data to strings (and viceversa) when timestamping. The following values are accepted:
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