Quick Settings panel

Quick Settings panel

Quick Settings is the column of frequently used options on the left of every connection: Connection Settings, Receive Settings and Send Settings.

• The Quick Settings toolbar button only shows or hides the panel; it never changes the configuration.
• While the panel is collapsed, a port picker appears on the toolbar for fast switching; it only shows for serial connections — a TCP/UDP connection has no serial port to pick.
• To choose what the panel contains, open Settings and switch to the Quick Settings page. The application remembers the layout.

The page lists the groups as a tree with a short description next to every entry:

• Check or clear a group to show or hide it as a whole; keep at least one group checked.
• Expand a group to check or clear its individual fields, so the panel only contains what you actually use.
• Use Up and Down to reorder the groups, or the fields inside a group.

What the groups contain:

• Connection Settings: the connection parameters and the indicator lamps. The port and mode selectors are always shown; baud rate, data bits, parity, stop bits and flow control can be hidden or reordered individually.
• Receive Settings: receive format (Text or Hex), idle-interval line wrap and receive timestamps.
• Send Settings: send format, loop send, Append Line Ending, Enter Sends, checksum, sent-data echo and line-by-line send.

Data Bits, Parity (nearly always 8/None), Display Send and Line by Line start hidden to keep the panel compact; enable them on the Quick Settings page when needed.