ULogViewer Installation and Upgrade Guide

Installation

ULogViewer is built as portable package. You can just unzip the package and run ULogViewer executable directly without installing .NET Runtime.
ULogViewer is no longer maintained for Windows 7/8/8.1, so it may not run properly on Windows 7/8/8.1.

macOS User

After downloading and unzipping package, please move ULogViewer application package (ULogViewer.app) to "Applications" folder to make sure running ULogViewer without permission issues.

Linux User

If you want to run ULogViewer on Linux, please grant execution permission to ULogViewer first. If you want to create an entry on desktop, please follow the steps:
  1. Create a file (name).desktop in ~/.local/share/applications. e.g., ~/.local/share/applications/ulogviewer.desktop.
  2. Open the .desktop file and put the following content:
    [Desktop Entry]
    Name=ULogViewer
    Comment=
    Exec=(path to executable)
    Icon=(path to ULogViewer.png in ULogViewer folder)
    Terminal=false
    Type=Application
  3. After saving the file, you should see the entry shown on desktop or application list.
Reference: How can I edit/create new launcher items in Unity by hand?
 
Currently ULogViewer lacks the ability to detect screen DPI on Linux, so you may find that the UI displays too small on Hi-DPI screens. In this case you can open Application Options of ULogViewer, find User interface scale factor and change the scale factor to a proper value.

Upgrade

ULogViewer checks for updates periodically while you are using it. It will notify you to upgrade once an update is found. Alternatively you can click Check for update item in the Other actions menu on the right hand side of toolbar (application menu on the top-left of screen on macOS) to check whether an update is available.
 
ULogViewer supports self updating, so you just need to click Update button and wait for the update to complete. If you are using ULogViewer before 1.0.0.207 on macOS, you just need to download and extract the new package and overwrite all existing files to upgrade.
 
For macOS users, you may find that the application icon hasn't updated to on Dock (also in Launchpad) after upgrading to ULogViewer 4.0. Please try the following steps to refresh the icon:
  1. Run the following commands in terminal:
    touch /Applications/ULogViewer.app
    killall Finder && killall Dock
  2. Try restarting your computer if the icon is still incorrect.
Reference: Programmatically changing icons on macOS

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