Preferences allow the user to define selected values preferred settings (e.g. Time view Cyclic Buffer length and duration, Message View Cash size, Max. concurrent Messages to show in Message View, etc.). Additional definitions reachable through the Preferences tool are, for example, color codes for the different views (e.g. Coordinator, Beacon and Device Good/Warning/Error messages in Time View, Connection lines color and thickness in Network View, colors of OK, Warning, Error, Compared, Highlighted Fields, and more in Message View, etc.).
Figure 282 – Tools Menu, Preferences
The 'Preferences…' form is accessed
from the tools menu or by clicking the Preferences icon (
) in the main
toolbar.
The User Preferences are chosen using an intuitive and user friendly menu that allows the user full flexibility to decide basic value settings and colors of choice of the Perytons™ Protocol Analyzer for his environment.
Preferences are grouped into tabs, each gathering parameters usable for a specific task or view (additional tabs can be reached by pressing he right and left arrows located on the right hand side of the tab names):
Figure 283 – User Preferences Tabs
The user can use the 'Search for a preference' when looking for a specific parameter within the Preference form (all parameters are shown in the drop-down list).
Figure 284 – Preferences window, Capture tab
Notes:
Some of the User
Preferences choices will take effect during live data capture process (e.g.
choosing a different color for specific messages in Time View will change the
color of the messages being captured and presented in Time View starting from
the time the change has been made), while others will only take effect on off
line captured data (e.g. Preferences related to the Network View
topology).
For any field, the field value can be restored to default
by using the mouse right click.
Pressing the "Revert To Defaults"
button (bottom left in the form) restores all the Preferences
values and settings to the factory defaults.
There is no ‘undo’ to
this action.
Figure 285 – Preferences, restore fields to default value
Changing some of the Preferences
values (e.g. encryption security keys calculation, etc.) will affect the way the
captured data is analyzed only after reloading the data capture file
(.ANL).
A quick way to reload the data file is just to re-choose the anaysis
protocol used (.e.g. 6LoWPAN) in the Main window Protocol drop-down list 
.
The following sections explain the parameters included in the different Preferences tabs in detail.