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Toolbar

Buttons on the toolbar are context sensitive, meaning that they will be enabled or disabled (grayed out) depending on whether or not the task performed by the button is currently available.

For example the red "Stop Aldl" button will only be enabled whenever EFILive is displaying data. And the various "Save" buttons will only be enabled when there is relevant data to be saved.

Clear logged data

Clears any currently logged data - depending on the data file save properties you may be prompted to save the currently logged data before it is cleared.

Load and display logged data

An open file dialog box will be displayed allowing you to choose the (*.alg) data file to load, (alg stands for "aldl log file").

 The dialog box will initially show the directory specified in the data file save properties.

Save logged data

Depending on the data file save properties you may be asked to provide a name for the data file. The default data file name is generated to be either vvvv_yyyymmdd_hhnnss.alg or ddhhnnss.alg depending on the 8.3 filename checkbox in data file save properties.

Where vvvv is the vehicle definition's code.
yyyy is the four digit year.
mm is the two digit month.
dd is the two digit day.
nn is the two digit minute.
ss is the two digit second.

Print

The Aldl, Charts, DTCs and Status Flags displays may all be printed by clicking on the print toolbar icon or selecting the menu: File->print.

Select vehicle and load definition from XML

An open file dialog box will be displayed allowing you to choose the (*.xml) vehicle definition file to load, (xml stands for "extensible markup language").

 The dialog box will initially show the directory specified in the vehicle file save properties.

Edit all vehicle data

Editing vehicle data provides access to the entire vehicle definition. More information can be found at Editing vehicle definitions.

Save vehicle definition to XML

Depending on the vehicle file save properties you may be asked to provide a name for the data file. The default data file name is generated to be  vvvv.xml.

Where vvvv is the vehicle definition's code.

If you change the vehicle's definition code the file will be saved with the new code. This is the recommended way to copy vehicle definition files when you need to create a new but similar vehicle definition.

Edit scaling formulas

Invokes the scaling formulas editor. More information can be found at Edit scaling formulas

Edit EFILive properties

Allows you to customise the way EFILive loads and saves data.
Provides access to comm port settings.
More information can be found at EFILive properties.

Start Aldl

Starts executing the currently selected macro. Each macro item is executed one or more times depending on it's iteration count. If the macro is designated to repeat then it will be repeated until the user stops the macro or until the capture buffer is full.

When EFILive starts displaying data, the necessary protocol information is automatically negotiated by EFILive.

The capture buffer can hold 10,000 frames. 10,000 frames at 10 frames per second is 1,000 seconds or 16 minutes and 40 seconds.

Playback

Will playback the currently loaded (or logged) aldl data. The playback speed may be adjusted in the properties settings.

Log Aldl

Toggles logging of data on or off. When logging is off the charts will not accumulate data. All other displays will continue to process the incoming data.

The frame and date/time stamps of the DTCs' and Bit Flags' displays will change to the frame number and date/time stamp of the last logged frame when logging is off. This means that the frame and data/time stamp will not be updated until at least one frame has been logged.

Pause Aldl

Pausing the aldl simply suspends communication. When the aldl is un-paused EFILive continues to display data.

Stop Aldl

Stopping the aldl terminates both data display and logging (if logging is active). Any subsequent starting of aldl display or capture will create a new set of data starting at frame zero.

Toggle chart inspector mode on/off

The chart inspector allows detailed and accurate analysis of the charted data. This button provides access to the chart inspector via the keyboard.

Display Aldl chatter

Display chatter simply displays any and all data that can be "seen" on the aldl connector.
This feature is not available when connected to a 160-baud vehicle.

Automatically detect Aldl chatter

Automatically detects and analyses chatter frames.

The purpose of analysing chatter is to discover the repeating pattern of chatter frames, the heartbeat frame and the find silence timeout value.

Redraw charts

Recalculates and replots charted data. The replotting of charts is automatic, so this action should rarely be needed.

Help contents

Displays the HTML EFILive V4 help documents.

 


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