Saving of connection properties in Savvycan

[wernerc11]

Hello,

as I needed to debug some can busses together with a group of people which were not equipped with suitable software for CAN handling I found Savvycan as a free and really useable tool.
As we need to handle several connections with different parameters in parallel (based on peak hardware) with different speeds on the bus it became annoying to adjust can speeds and properties on each program start as they are not stored with the connections itself.
So I extended the current main branch with the capability to save the serial, bus and data rate as well as the can-fd state.
This seems to work fine here and I would like to give back this feature to the community or people who might find this useful.
I registered with github and wanted to open a pull request for this feature but it seems that some prerequesites are not fullfilled for me.
As I am very busy and don't find the time to solve such topics currently I simply put a git patch against the current main branch here.
And to be honest one additional information:
I tested this patch regarding the bus speed only, as our requirements needed this only and for peak hardware only. But nevertheless I added the serial speed, datarate and can-fd option to get a complete setup. Maybe someone can test this features and other adapters/drivers when using the patch.
For adapters with more than one bus on a connection the patch might not be enough, I can't estimate this due to non existing hardware for this here.

Best regards

Werner
savvycan_connection_save.txt

[TripleFJeff]

I'm not (even close to) a programmer, just a user of the SavvyCAN tool. I would really like to have bus speed saved. Is there a quick explanation of how I would do this? Or an already compiled exe with this feature?

[wernerc11]

I answered in a separate message below

[wernerc11]

Hello,
thanks for your interest.
I am an embedded programmer now about 40 years in business nevertheless my main skills are not guis and C++. But to solve the problem I had a look at the problem which needed to be implemented only.
Seems that for most people this was no primary need.
You need to patch the Savvycan sources and compile them. I assume as this part is platform independant it will work for Linux and Windows.
I am mainly working under Linux and had the QT development environment readily installed due to other projects I had to compile earlier. So it was easy to me to compile a Linux binary which I can send to interested people if needed.
Unfortunately I don'Ät have a windows machine setup with QT development tools and often its not to easy such tools under windows. Maybe someone else here may compile it for windows, I am interested in an windows binary, too.
Not for me, but for some people I am in contact and which are no real technicians and don't want to use Linux for just this purpose which is understandable for me.
The easiest would be when the changes would be partly or completely taken into the main sources so that all future releases will contain it. Of course if the written code fullfills the given rules for code here which I didn't check before. I just needed a quick solution and wanted to give back this to the community if its usefull.

[TripleFJeff]

That is certainly beyond my skills, so if anyone out there is able to compile a windows exe with this patch I would very much appreciate it.

[wernerc11]

I just created a pull/merge request for the patch.
It worked in a similar way gitlab uses which I am normally using with my customers.
So if someone with write access to the original repo will review it it can be merged into the master branch.

[shanlanCoding]

good job！