DASYLab

New Features in DASYLab 11.0

General

The modules have a new look: The module corners are rounded, the modules are framed with a continuous line, and the background color is lighter and shaded.

DASYLab now supports long filenames and file paths in the entries where DASYLab reads or saves files. Depending on the Windows operating system the paths can be up to 250 characters long.

You can now scroll in the worksheet and also in the layout with the mouse wheel. If you press <Ctrl>, you change the direction from vertical to horizontal.

As before you can use the spacebar to move the worksheet in the workspace, but now you also can use the mouse wheel or the middle mouse button. If you press the spacebar, you can move the worksheet until you press the left mouse button. If you keep the mouse wheel pressed, you can move the worksheet. As soon as you release the mouse wheel, DASYLab positions the worksheet in the workspace.

The following hotkeys have been added to DASYLab:
<F11> Go to the subsequent channel in the channel bar in the open module dialog box.
<F12> Go to the previous channel in the channel bar in the open module dialog box.
<Ctrl-B> Show or hide browser
<Ctrl-D> Show or hide FIFO list and FIFO graph
<Ctrl-I> Show or hide info block
<Ctrl-M> Show or hide module bar
<Ctrl-Y> Show or hide console

A number of dialog boxes have been revised and linked to a Help page.

Global Settings

The Worksheet behavior group contains the setting Outsource processing modules to threads. If you enable this setting, specific modules are processed in threads. Thus, certain tasks are processed separately from the worksheet. This leads to faster processing. Currently the NI-DAQmx driver and the DAP driver use this setting. Disable this setting if your worksheet does not work smoothly.

Assign to Module Bar

The selection dialog box for the assignment of the module bar now lists the complete names of all modules registered in DASYLab. Additionally the dialog box displays the module symbol 1:1, so that you can differentiate, for example, the inputs and the outputs of several registered drivers better.

Replace Module

If you select Replace Module from the context menu of a module, the selection dialog box contains all the modules with compatible channel assignments including the complete module name and the name of the module group.

Layout

When saving a layout in JPEG format over an action, the image quality is better. DASYLab adds a filename extension to the specified name if the specified filename extension does not correspond with the selected graphic format.

Reference Curve Editor

Use the reference curve editor to load and to display reference curves and to edit and to generate new reference curves. The reference curve editor is a self-contained application which you can open and operate next to DASYLab. The reference curve editor displays the minimum values, the mean values, and the maximum values of a reference curve. The reference curve editor displays the values numerically in a table and graphically in the curve display. You edit the reference curve in the table. In the table you can insert, add, and delete rows and also single values. In the curve display you can zoom and select curve sections. Each change that you make in the table, the curve display shows immediately.

Diagram Module

You can display triggered and non-triggered time data with the Diagram module. Triggered data have time gaps, which are greater than the sampling rate, between successive data blocks.

If you move the left cursor over the right cursor in the window display of the diagram, DASYLab displays the cursor in red and not in black any more.

The diagram now supports the display of reference curves. You can display the reference curve and tolerance range in different colors.

E-Mail Module

DASYLab can now send e-mails without an e-mail client. DASYLab uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) as the standard system. The SMTP server receives the e-mails from DASYLab and sends the e-mails to the target address via the internet. Internet providers and companies supply SMTP servers. However, DASYLab does not support the encrypting protocols Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). DASYLab cannot use internet providers that use these encrypting protocols, as an SMTP server. If you have questions, contact your IT administrator.

Action Module

The actions Copy variable range and Copy string range have been added to the action list. These actions copy several connected variables or strings to a different position within the variable list or the string list. As variable parameters you can specify, for example, the first variable to be copied, the number of variables to be copied, and the target number to which the first variable is to be copied.

Read Data Module

You can use the synchronization settings in the Read Data module to specify whether DASYLab reads the data with the measured sampling rate and block size, or whether DASYLab reads the values with the sampling rate and the block size of a synchronization basis you can select.

Write Data Module

Further path handling options have been added to the Write Data module. If you enter a filename without a path or drive specification, DASYLab creates this file in the default folder for data. If you enter a filename with a dot and backslash, for example, .\MyFile.tdm, DASYLab also creates this file in the default folder Data. If you enter a filename only with a backslash, for example, \MyFile.tdm, DASYLab creates this file in the root folder of the drive that DASYLab is installed on, for example, C:\MyFile.tdm, if DASYLab is installed under C:\Program Files.

DataSocket Import and DataSocket Export Modules

The Item button with which you can browse to the server in the network is not available in Windows Vista.

RS232 Input/Output Module

In the interface settings the default port is now COM1 and not COM2.

ModBus Modules

The ModBus driver is not available on this CD. The driver will be available for downloading on the DASYLab Website as soon as possible.

Multiplexer / Demultiplexer Module

In the worksheet the modules Mulitplexer and Demultiplexer display the name that was used previously in the browser and in the selection dialog box. The modules used to be called Merge and Separate.

Program Help

The descriptions of the menu functions have been completely revised.

The manual has been added to the Help and can be found under Basics.

Procedures have been added to the Help. A procedure is a step-by-step instruction of the solution to your task.