Data Converter

Indigo provides a data conversion utility to examine data bytes from the terminal session in other byte formats than ASCII. These alternative byte formats include hexadecimal, decimal, binary, octal, and other variations including a user defined custom format.

The Data Converter is a tool window that be docked, pinned, or positioned anywhere on the screen. The first button in the Data Converter Tool Window is used to enable or disable automatic data conversion. If this option is enabled, then any text that is selected in the current session window will be automatically converted on the fly.

If this option is not enabled, the Data Converter will only work in manual mode. In manual mode, you simply select some ASCII text and drag it into the Data Converter tool window. The Data Converter will display the dropped text in the specified format.

To choose a different data representation, simply click on the second button in the Data Converter Tool Window. This will provide a drop down list of conversion options.

The Grouping option in the data format menu allows the representation of multiple bytes grouped into Words (2 bytes) or DWords (4 bytes). This grouping option is available to the base formats such as HEX, DEC, OCTAL, and BINARY.

(Note: to learn more about custom data formatting, please see the "Custom Data Format / Editor" help topic under the topic heading "Advanced Tools")