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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Editing vehicle data provides access to the entire
vehicle definition. More information can be found at Editing
vehicle definitions.
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.
Invokes the scaling formulas editor. More information
can be found at Edit scaling formulas
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.
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.
Will playback the currently loaded (or logged) aldl
data. The playback speed may be adjusted in the properties
settings.
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.
Pausing the aldl simply suspends communication.
When the aldl is un-paused EFILive continues to display data.
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.
The chart inspector allows detailed and accurate
analysis of the charted data. This button provides access to the chart inspector
via the keyboard.
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 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.
Recalculates and replots charted data. The replotting
of charts is automatic, so this action should rarely be needed.
Displays the HTML EFILive V4 help documents.
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