Use Numbers

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Use Numbers

This feature is available in the Terminal mode only. When checked, terminal works in the following mode.

 

Receiving

Bytes with initial hash marks '#' are automatically transferred to decimal format.

Bytes with initial hash marks '$' are automatically transferred to hexadecimal format.

It is allowed to compose up to 4-byte numbers in this way. Converted number begins with the '#' or '$' character.

Example:

Received data

Displayed

'#'0x0A

#10

'#'0x01'#'0x25'#'0xA5

#75173

'#'0x01'#'0x25'#'0xA5'#'0x00'#'0x0A

#19244288#10

'$'0x0A

$0A

'$'0x01'$'0x25'$'0xA5

$0125A5

'$'0x01'$'0x25'$'0xA5'$'0x00'$'0x0A

$0125A500$0A


 

Transmitting

After putting the '#' character to the Data to Send entry field three subsequent characters ('0' to '9') are interpreted as numeric value in decimal format to be sent.

After putting the '$' character to the Data to Send entry field subsequent characters ( '0' - '9', 'A' - 'F', 'a' - 'f'  ) are interpreted as numeric value in hexadecimal format to be sent.

Example:

Data to Send

Transmitted data

#255

0xFF

123#00456

0x31 0x32 0x33 0x04 0x35 0x36

$FF

0xFF

123$0456

0x31 0x32 0x33 0x04 0x35 0x36