Add notes / annotations to graph

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S	Saleae

I would like to get the possibility to add any text with drawing options like circles etc. to the captured data. This makes it easier for debugging or sharing data.

Edit: Allow the extension to return also a time marker(s) that will be added in the trace, so the extension for example can place a time marker at the highest voltage. it would be coupled to the measurement, so if the measurement is deleted, the marker would also be deleted, if the measurement extent is moved the marker(s) are also moved.

25-02-2020 -

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Tim

(#83091)
"It would be really handy to be able to add notes to the screen. A little text box that I can drag around the screen."

Peter Jaquiery

I'd forgotten about the original annotation thread my recent idea was merged with. The ideas are closely related and merging them makes sense. The point of difference is my recent idea annotates a region of activity - the system is in some state or processing a specific task, as opposed to a pint of interest - some interesting event happened at this point in time. Both are very useful and much of the work under the hood to support the two modes is likely to be common.

Peter Jaquiery

I'd like to be able to add annotation text to a selected block so that I can quickly identify DUT system states as I work through debugging a system.

In the UI this would look like:
1/ Right click on a selection and choose "Annotate"
2/ Enter annotation text into a dialog
3/ the annotation remains even when the original selection is deleted and shows as a highlighted region.
4/ The annotation text overlays the signal when the mouse cursor is within the annotation region.

3/ and 4/ could change substantially as the feature design shakes out.

Tim

Merged with: Annotate selections

Tim

Thanks for sharing details on your preferred implementation. I'm going to merge this in with the idea below:
ideas.saleae.com/b/feature-requests/add-annotations-to-graph/

R

Or maybe also allow for pdf export of a certain range. You can select if it is separated by pages or just one giant pdf.

Saleae

Example: in the protocol analyzer, with a protocol like SPI the 1-byte labels can be shown in hex with a nice colored bar. But, I have a non-standard 3-wire protocol with no nice way to label the data. I would like to be able to select a data line across 8 clock edges and have a label showing the hex value of the data.

Peter Jaquiery

This fits very well with Python filters and event detectors for marking points of interest - minimum or maximum pulse width in a train of pulses for example.

please add this feature.