DSS Scripting - saveData() questions

John MacGregor said:

The relative file path (lots of ..\\..) works fine but I couldn't get an absolute path to work

the absolute path should work. I am surprised that it is not. How are you calling the API?

John MacGregor said:

Originally I though that the scripting console only would work if the DSP was at a breakpoint but savedata() works even if the DSP is not at a breakpoint.

Typically, this is the case. But if you are using a device that supports real-time memory accesses (like C2000 or Cortex-M), then it is possible to access memory while the target is running. I believe there is also a debugger option that you can set to have the debugger auto-halt the target under the hood when a device access is made. After the access, the debugger would resume execution so from the user standpoint, the target appeared to have never halted

John MacGregor said:

I'd like to change the data file name every time I run my function - so every time I call my function I can increment the filename string. This way I can save multiple data sets without having to manually use Explorer and change the filename. This would require a static variable that would get incremented and some string manipulation of the file name string. However I'm to a java guy but I'm assuming this would should not be too hard to do. Any ideas?

Yes this can be done fairly easily. I was thinking of something like the below very simple js file example:

...

var numSaveData = 0;

saveDataToFile();
saveDataToFile();
saveDataToFile();

function saveDataToFile()
{
    activeDS.memory.saveData(0, 0x0, "C:/Temp/saved_data" + numSaveData + ".dat", 10, 1, false);
    numSaveData++;
}

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