Feature request: Select bit in "Interpretation" and jump to them in "analysis"

[Nesos-ita]

signal that i'm analyzing is visible here (#338):

I have a signal compossed by a preamble, a pause, sync+short pause+data, everything expect the preamble repeated equal three times.
I'd like to analyze it, so i recorded multiple messages with different temperatures and humidity values.
each recording is one trasmission/one pair of temp+hum
Problem: program split the message in multiple parts making the result simply useless.
Not-so-good-solution: disable message break on pause (set pause threshold =0)
new problem: in analysis i see a looong ammount of 0 since pause has been removed
new imperfect solution: use ZeroHide plugin, now everything is good, i only need to add labels like preamble, sync1, data1, sync2, data2, sync3, data3; and after set as visible only one data label (the fact that preamble and sync is always equal has been checked by hand long time ago)
problem: pauses have been removed so i have no idea where the sync start and end.
possible solution: this feature request :) i mark the sync part, jump to it in analysis, it will mark the whole sync so i see where it start and end and add a new label.
It would be nicer if there is a way to keep the pause in interpretation and also in analysis, but don't split the message on multiple lines!
some ideas:

• in anaysis add a "P" between all those 0 and 1 when there ia a pause
• in analysis make a bold vertical line | that indicate where the pause is

all without going to new line
I LOVE THIS PROGRAM <3
it automate so many tasks so that the only thing that i have to do more than once is recording signals :)
if you find a way to keep the pause visible and not split on multiple lines so that i can add labels easily it will be perfect :)

[jopohl]

Did you try to set the pause threshold to 16 instead of 0? As the pause between actual messages is much greater than between sync and data I see no reason to disable message breaking entirely with pause threshold 0.

[Nesos-ita]

i could and it will probably work but then i will have 4 messages (instead of 7):

• preamble
• sync + data (repeated three times)

The problem is that i will have preamble and sync+data and there is no point in comparing them, also i could not set a label as preamble and other as sync+data because they will be on the same line (again split message problem).
i could also cut away the preamble or any part except data but this means editing N signals and is also problematic if i have to replay it after.
If the signal is made in that way i would like to keep every part of it, eventually mark the first part as preamble and hide that label but not deleting it.

[jopohl]

Ah I see...well at least this will get the preambles into seperate messages so you could hide them in Analysis.

It it also possible to deal with the labeling problem using message types. Here is an example:

Message 2 has a different message type than the other messages so it can be labeled differently. You can add a new message type using the + button and assign a message type to a message using the context menu in Analysis table. You can even automate this assigning by creating a rule for the message type using the button left to the "+". This way you could, e.g, assign a "preamble" message type to all preamble messages.

Btw thanks for taking your time to make such detailed issues, it really helps fixing bugs quickly. 👍

[Nesos-ita]

Btw thanks for taking your time to make such detailed issues, it really helps fixing bugs quickly. +1

Happy to be useful ^_^
i'll try message type this evening, now i'm not at home

[Nesos-ita]

I have tried using message types as suggested, and found a bug, opened here: #451
I think that multiple message types, labels, automatic label assign and longer pause detection solves all the problems described here* (the program is now usable also if it split a single message on multiple lines)
I think you can close this now :)
*except that multiple message types is bugged

[jopohl]

Awesome. glad it works for you. 👍