ALDL Tracing

[Six_Shooter]

I'm trying to add tracing to an xdf that I have used for tuning a truck, and will be using again, once I swap that ECM into a different truck. long story short the '7747 is coming out of one truck, to be replaced with a '7730 and the '7747 is going into another truck (EFI conversion).

What I would like to do is add ALDL tracing to the $42 xdf I have.

I've been comparing the $42, $59 and S_AUJP .XDF and .ADS files.

I see that in S_AUJP there are different categories used. In $59 this is not. So I don't think that is need for tracing. Can I get more explaination on this, what these categories do?
*edit* I see how these are used now, by reading that helpful help section built into TP RT. It looks to be like another item finding option.

In both S_AUJP and $59 I see that there are certain .ads files associated with the xdf, this makes sense, and would be neccesary to get the tracing to work as I would think.

I added an .ads to be accociated with the $42 xdf I use, and have not been able to select the x or y axis in each xdf item, the selction bars are not high lighted.

What am I missing?

--==EDIT==--

I figured it out, I re-read the help topic on this and found the axis out type selection box it was mentioning. I didn't find these before.

Now to set the associations and test at some point, probably once I get my test bench set-up.

I would like an explantion of what the differences are between "floating point" "Interger" and "Hex digits" and how they relate to the ALDL association or how the XDF is effected by changing these options.

[JP86SS]

Its all in making the values match.
For data tracing to work you must have the XDF items set to Integer or floating point display (otherwise they are not a numeric representation).
The values coming in on the ADS definition must be of the same numeric RANGE as the XDF item definition.
Make sure RPM is not RPM x10 or something that throws off the whole scale of things.
Temperatures can not be C in the XDF and F in the ADS etc.
Those types of items are the main reasons when it doesn't work correctly.

Integers do not have fractional parts, only whole numbers.
Using floating point allows for interpolation between whole number values.

Also, making a ADS associated with the XDF allows the selection within the XDF to choose the correct ADS item and inform you if something changes that will effect the association you have made between them.
HTH