• Program Settings
  • Colors
    • Color Theme
  • Measurement Window
    • Single Value Per X Axis Point
  • Automatic Switch between x- or y- Axis Zoom
  • Files and Folders
    • Folder Monitoring
    • Lap Distance Normalization
      • Normalization Calculation
      • DIST Flag
    • Data Compression
  • Miscellaneous
  • Telemetry
    • Activate WinDarab if Alarm Occurs
    • Network Adapters for Telemetry
  • Special Channels
  • Physical Units
  • Comments
    • File Open
    • Outing Constants
  • Import Defaults

Modify these settings to change the default colors of the WinDarab user interface

To change to other pre-defined color themes, use the Style Menu in the Top Right.

We generally recommend Bosch Black for analysis

If you are in direct sunlight, Bosch White will give better visibility

When viewing very large data sets and you are zoomed out there are not enough pixels on the screen to represent each X axis point (time/distance). WinDarab can filter down the data and generate one value to represent a range of x axis points so that a single value can be plotted per pixel.

Setting Active:

Setting Disabled:

This setting only affects how the data is shown, underlying calculations (outing report/math channels/etc) are un-affected.

In many analysis windows Right Click and Hold + Mouse left/right or up/down will allow the user to adjust the zoom level.

If this setting is disabled:

• The initial movement of the mouse defines the zoom axis

If this setting is enabled:

• The final movement direct of the mouse defines the zoom axis

WinDarab will monitor the file system for new data files. See File System Monitoring

The default option is to monitor all folders where you open data from. If you have special sync folders on your machine, you can change to the 'This folder' setting and define it. (This is generally not needed)

WinDarab will, by default, try to normalize the distance of each lap to the currently selected racetrack.

• If you don't want the normalization to occur: select Never
• If you want each and every lap (in/out included) to be normalized: select Always
• If you want a definable deviation: enter it (5% is default)

The normalization calculation is a scalar value multiplied by the logged/calculated value of unnormalized lapdistance.

Pseudo code to demonstrate normalization

scalar = selected_racetrack_length / current_lap_length
lapdist = current_lap_lapdist * scalar

More advanced algorithms can be employed using the COM-API

This flag will appear in the File Explorer if:

• The lap length does not match the loaded trackmap

If you want WinDarab to create compressed files when Exporting or Downloading from a logger, enable this setting.

• Opening compressed files is supported in 7.7.36 and higher versions.

This setting will cause WinDarab to take the Focus if an alarm occurs.

You can define specific network adapters on your machine to look for WDServer

Most customer will not change this setting

See the section Special Channels

Users can define unit conversions if they prefer to work in non-standard units

Comments can be added to each datafile. Use this dialog to define what file comments you would like to be able to write to each file.

Comments can be defined in the Data Logger Import tool or by highlighting an Outing Report then on the ribbon Start → Comments

Comments can be viewed for each file when in the File Open Dialog

Comments can be used for File Constants for use in Math Functions. However they are a bit clumsy for this task.

• We recommend using Setupsheets instead

This dialog is for the much older import tool and will be depracated/removed in a later version of WinDarab.