The screen, part by part
What every area is for, including the two different controls both called Layout.
The areas
- Header. The file name, how many rows were kept, the build number, the two pickers (Layout and Custom Gauges), Reset Zoom, the Analyze and Layout menus, and Close.
- Channel list on the left, on every tab.
- Tabs: Graph, Gauges, Histograms. They share one log, one zoom window and one cursor, so a cell you click in a table and a moment you hover on a graph are the same moment.
- Overview bar at the bottom: the whole log end to end, with a red window showing what you are zoomed into, a playhead at the cursor, and a mark at your race zero.
- Race readout left of that bar, for zeroing the time axis at your launch.
The two controls called Layout
The word appears twice in the header and they are different things.
- The Layout picker on the left shows which layout is loaded and lets you switch to another one, or to a built-in view.
- The Layout menu on the right is where you save, save as new, delete, or download the original log.
Both picker buttons show the loaded item underneath their caption, with a * after the name when you have changed something that is not saved yet.
The cursor
Move the pointer over any graph and a vertical line follows it on every panel at once. The channel list values, the cards, the gauges, the legends, the race time and the live dot on a histogram all read that instant. The position sticks when you move away, so you can read the numbers without holding the mouse still.
This page is part of the manual built into BigData for Windows, where the same topics are available offline with F1.