Application Preferences


Much of the preferences dialog is pretty self explanatory. We'll try to document the stuff below that might need some extra explanation.

Filenames tab

The Filenames tab is used to specify how the application will construct new filenames for datalogs or device files (when doing File->Save As..., for example).  ECMLink can also be configured to automatically create new directories for datalogs.  To do these things, ECMLink allows the user to define filename patterns.  You can use the Edit... button next to these patterns to get help editing any given pattern.  The editor will show a sample of the results as well as a syntax reference and examples.  The following is an example of the pattern editor dialog.

Pattern editor

In this example, the pattern is specified as 'logs.'yyyy.MM which means to take the string literal "logs." and append a 4-digit year (yyyy) followed by a '.' followed by a 2-digit month indicator (MM).

Ports tab

The ports tab was briefly mentioned in the Getting Started page.  And more detailed information can be found on the Port Configuration page.