Messages View Top Toolbar
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The toolbar located along the top of Messages view is shown in Figure 1.
Refer to Table 1 for details on the various toolbar selections.
Toolbar Selection | Description | Hotkey |
---|---|---|
Scroll button | Selects scrolling or static display mode.
| F3 then M |
Opens a Details for "Message" area to help decode unknown signals in messages. | none | |
Expand checkbox | Shows data from multi-frame messages more clearly, like USDT or J1939. Works only in static display mode.
| none |
Opens a menu with many features to help reverse engineer unknown messages and signals. | none | |
Shows relative or absolute timestamps. Works in scrolling and static display modes.
| F3 then A | |
Pauses the message display. Works in scrolling and static display modes.
| F3 then spacebar | |
Saves the message buffer to a file. | F3 then S | |
Erases the message buffer and clears any suppression of activity highlighting. | F3 then C | |
New Form button | Opens more Messages views that operate independently from each other. A powerful feature that lets you dedicate each view to one network or ECU for example. | none |
Find Prev, Find Next, and search field | Finds text entered in the search field. Find Next looks for the next instance while Find Prev looks for matches earlier in the traffic. | none |
Search Location dropdown | none | |
Go To Line field & button | none |
Sets which Messages view to search in.
This will put the desired line number at the top of the Messages view. This works only while paused in scrolling mode or while using .