You can create a log out of the received traces. The log can be either a plain text (ASCII) log file that can be opened in a normal text editor, or a binary log file that will contain all the data in the same form as coming from the trace source. Note that the binary file can only be opened in TraceViewer.
Some typical cases for logging could be:
To start logging, do the following:
A submenu containing options is displayed. You have multiple choices:
To open a previously written ASCII or Binary log file, select Open log. A file selection dialog is displayed where you can select your log file.
To write a new Binary log, select New Binary log. A file selection dialog is displayed where you can select where to create your log file.
To save currently shown traces to a Binary log file, select Save current traces to Binary log. A file selection dialog is displayed where you can select where to create your log file.
To stop currently ongoing Binary logging, select Close Binary log. This option is not selectable if Binary logging is not ongoing.
To write a new ASCII log, select New ASCII log. A file selection dialog is displayed where you can select where to create your log file. After file selection, a dialog is displayed where you can select few options:
(Optional) To omit timestamps from the plain text log files for a better comparability between the log files, select Omit timestamps from the log.
This option is useful for situations where the timestamp information does not bring additional value to the analysis of data.
(Optional) To write a machine readable plain text log file, select Write machine readable ASCII log.
This log file format is easy to read using automatic scripts.
To save currently shown traces to a ASCII log file, select Save current traces to ASCII log. A file selection dialog is displayed where you can select where to create your log file.
To stop the currently ongoing ASCII logging, select Close ASCII log. This option is not selectable if ASCII logging is not ongoing.
Note: If you have added comments to the traces, they will get written to a separate file called <log_file_name>.meta. To see the comments when you open the log file to TraceViewer, the .meta file must be in the same directory as the log file itself.