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Console's Toolbar

The ADBLogger Console's toolbar is a central component of the interface, providing quick access to various functionalities essential for effective log management. It's designed to facilitate easy interactions with the logging system, enabling you to start or stop log capturing, clear logs, manage filters, watchers, and highlighters, and handle exports—all within a few clicks.

Key Features of the Toolbar

Logcat Control

At the heart of the toolbar is the Logcat Control button, which allows you to toggle the log capturing process. This button switches between "Active" and "Inactive" states, visually indicated by intuitive icons, to show whether logs are currently being captured.

  • 🟢 Active State: Indicated by a green light icon, clicking this button stops the log capture.
  • 🔴 Inactive State: Shown with a red light icon, this button starts the log capture, using the default or a previously set filter.

Clear and Export

Adjacent to the Logcat Control, the Clear button provides a quick way to clear all current logs from the console, ensuring a clean slate for new log entries.

For exporting logs, the Export dropdown menu offers two options:

  • Export to Text: Saves the logs in a text format.
  • Export to JSON: Saves the logs in a JSON format, useful for further processing or analysis.

Feature Toggles

The toolbar includes toggles for accessing and managing Filters, Watchers, and Highlighters—each critical for refining what logs you see and how they are processed:

  • Filters: Manage rules that logs must pass to be displayed.
  • Watchers: Set up alerts for specific log patterns.
  • Highlighters: Highlight logs based on specific criteria, enhancing visibility for important logs.

To the right of the toolbar, custom toggles allow for further refinement of displayed logs based on severity or other criteria. These toggles can be configured in the settings and include a count of logs that match the toggle’s criteria.

The Search Field enhances log navigation by allowing you to filter logs displayed in the console based on text matches. Accompanying the search field is a clear button, which becomes visible when text is entered, to quickly clear the search input.

Auto Scroll Checkbox

Finally, the Auto Scroll checkbox enables the console to automatically scroll to the latest log entries as they arrive. This feature is essential for real-time log monitoring, ensuring that the newest entries are always in view without manual intervention.