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To configure the general properties of a controller, select it from the controller's list and click on the
tab at the bottom-left corner of the screen, as shown below:
A new window will open, where you can configure the general properties of your controller.
The table below contains a description of each field in this section:
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Name | The name of the controller. | ||||||||||||||||
Dequeue time | The frequency (in milliseconds) that the controller's dequeue timer checks the data buffer. | ||||||||||||||||
Dequeue linger | Determines whether or not the dequeue timer is reset whenever any input receives data. | ||||||||||||||||
Timestamp format | Defines a string to place before every line of data when it is dequeued. The string can contain any or all of the following variables:
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Timestamp in UTC | Indicates that the UTC time should be used as the time stamp, rather than the local time (default) | ||||||||||||||||
Timestamp encoding | Selects the type of encoding to use during conversion of byte array data to strings (and viceversa) when timestamping. Valid values are:
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