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Introducing Docklight Pro Monitor and Docklight Tap 485 Using Docklight helps eliminate a lot of time-consuming manual labor when testing or validating serial protocol applications. Now you can work with the same outstanding ease in more challenging areas, where our classic Docklight software was not designed to operate. We are pleased to introduce: Docklight Pro Monitor and Docklight Tap 485 , a dedicated software & hardware solution for: High-speed serial monitoring up to 921 kbps Time-critical applications RS232 applications where hardware handshaking , resp. RTS / CTS / DTR / DSR / DCD / RI signal states are involved RS485 2-wire and RS422 4-wire differential signal applications  Docklight Pro Monitor is a free addition to all Docklight Scripting license holders. Evaluation is free and without time limit, as always. Try it now: Download Docklight Pro Monitor Docklight Pro Monitor works with our Docklight Tap Pro and Docklight Tap 485 USB data ...

The free updates to Docklight and Docklight Scripting are out now. You can download the updated software from here: Docklight runs smoothly on the fresh Windows 10 Download Docklight V2.1 and Docklight Scripting V2.1 It has taken us quite a while to come up with the final features, and here's why: We actually spend a lot of time working with Docklight, not on  Docklight. Docklight & Kickdrive powered Touch Panel UI New functions that go into Docklight are either things our users needed to solve a specific problem. Or we needed it ourselves, to build some interesting applications for equipment control & configuration. The pretty touch panel to the left was made using a  Docklight DLL  inside a  Kickdrive Runtime Application . It talks to a Technosoft controller using a custom serial protocol including a checksum. So in Docklight and Docklight Scripting V2.1 you can benefit from a very accessible checksum/CRC calculator...

In short Docklight and Docklight Scripting just became faster and better looking. Grab a preview of the upcoming update: Docklight Scripting V2.0.x Customer Support Version Docklight V2.0.x Customer Support Version The Full Story The Docklight software tools certainly have a history, with the first Docklight released in 2002. This does not stop them from working flawlessly on any recent 32 or 64 bit Windows system with a huge range of serial communications hardware and software, but there was always one well documented limitation: Docklight is only as fast as its communication output formatting .  Specifically the Rich Text Format (RTF) display can be a true bottleneck in any communication logging that produces a lot of color changes, e.g. due to different data directions, timestamps or control character comments. We now carefully reworked the related code and found a much improved solution which increases RTF formatting speed by factor 3-5. The updated Dockli...