- The Events window displays raw data and other types of events noticed by VCS in real-time (live) or from a capture file.
- You can (click a button) display all events or just the data portion. See the two images below for comparison.
- Data are displayed in your choice of hex, decimal, octal, or binary, and you can select ASCII, 7-bit ASCII, EBCDIC,or Baudot code for the Characters frame. You can enable one or both of the Numbers or Characters displays.
- What is displayed here is determined by a combination of the options selectable in this window and those in the Control window.
- There are a number of types of events in VCS. Each is represented in the display as an unique character. The font includes special symbols.
VCS power is exemplified by the variety of event types, which include changes in control signals,
beginning and end of frame (defined by the current protocol stack), and many other noteworthy happenings.
- The yellow outlined area in the display here starts with an outlined flag symbol, representing the start of a frame.
At the end of this frame you can see a solid flag symbol.
- Note that the highlighted data constitutes a frame sent by the DTE. Responses by the DCE can
be seen following highlighted in gray.
- The Events window is tightly coordinated with protocol decoding (framing). The frame decoder is running while we view events!
The corresponding Frame Window - the same frame as that highlighted here is viewed in much more detail.
- You can open multiple Event windows -- indeed multiple Frame Windows, etc.
- If you open the Breakout Box or Signals window, the highlighted area will be coordinated so that you can see the condition of signals at the time this frame was received.
- From here you can use Edit | Find to locate events, frames, patterns, and more -- this major feature ALONE can easily pay for the cost of the product the first time you use it.
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