In short
Docklight
and Docklight Scripting just became faster and better looking. Grab a preview
of the upcoming update:
The Full Story
The Docklight
software tools certainly have a history, with the first Docklight released in
2002. This does not stop them from working flawlessly on any recent 32 or 64
bit Windows system with a huge range of serial communications hardware and software, but there was always one well
documented limitation:
Docklight
is only as fast as its communication output formatting. Specifically the Rich Text Format (RTF) display can be a true bottleneck in any communication logging
that produces a lot of color changes, e.g. due to different data directions,
timestamps or control character comments.
We now carefully reworked the related code and found a much improved solution which
increases RTF formatting speed by factor 3-5. The updated Docklight is also able to detect overload situations. It will signal them in the main status display and automatically
switches to "Plain Text Mode", which is typically 10-50 times faster than "Colors&Fonts Mode".
We brushed
up the overall looks, too - Docklight now uses the modern Windows 8/7 standard
fonts with much improved readability. (The old "Courier" font is still in use for "Plain Text Mode" though, since it is a Bitmap Font which renders somewhat
faster than a True Type font.)
So feel free
to try out a preview for the new features and looks:
Both software packages support the advanced Docklight Tap Pro and Docklight Tap 485 monitoring accessories and should provide much improved performance in typical full-duplex monitoring applications.
See also the
readme.txt file inside the .zip archive and our news about USB HID support for more
information about other useful additions.
Please keep
in mind – this is a pre-release software provided for individual customer support
and evaluation. Though it has passed our automated testing procedures, it is
not recommended for production use. The new features are also not yet included in
the manual, and are subject to change.
As usual, any
feedback, suggestions, praise or criticism is highly appreciated!
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