Settings

To configure the general properties of a controller, select it from the list of controllers and click on the Settings tab at the bottom-left corner of the screen, as shown below:

A new window will open, where you can configure the general properties of your controller.

The table below contains a description of each field in this section:

Field

Description

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:

{year}	The current year, formatted as "yyyy"
{month}	The current month, formatted as "mm"
{day}	The current day, formatted as "dd"
{hour}	The current hour, formmated as "hh"
{minute}	The current minute, formatted as "mm"
{second}	The current second, formatted as "ss"
\r	Carriage return
\n	Line feed

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:

default	Use the operating system default
ascii	Use plain (7-bit) ASCII
unicode	Use Unicode double-byte encoding
utf8	Use UTF8 versatible encoding