Menu Options

File Menu

The File menu contains options for opening traces and exporting views and actor data:

Menu	Option	Description
	Open Folder	Choose a monitoring session to open and analyze.
	Reload File	Reloads the current session.
	Save Current View as Image	Exports the current trace view to an image.
	Export Actor Data	Exports actor instance data to a text file. The exported data includes start time, execution time, response time and fragmentation of each instance of the selected actors. You can export it as tab separated fields for import in other tools or space aligned columns for easy reading.
	Settings	Launches the Settings dialog through which you can configure Tracealyzer settings. See Configuring Tracealyzer for more information.
	Recent Files	Displays a list of recently opened session folders.
	Exit	Exits the program.

Find Menu

The Find menu allows you to quickly find the previous or next instance from the selected instance. You can also open the Finder dialog from this menu, or by pressing CTRL+F.

Menu	Option	Description
	Next Instance	Jumps to the next instance from the selected instance. NOTE: This option is grayed-out until an instance is selected.
	Previous Instance	Jumps to the previous instance from the selected instance. NOTE: This option is grayed-out until an instance is selected.
	Time Point	Opens the Finder window, through which you can specify a time point to jump to.
	Open the Finder	Opens the Finder window. For information on the features available from this menu, see Finder Window.

View Menu

The View menu allows you to configure the trace view and to open other views. See the respective page for information about the other views.

Menu	Option	Description
	New Trace Window	Opens a new Trace View window.
	Horizontal Trace View	Opens the Horizontal Trace View.
	CPU Load Graph	Opens the CPU Load Graph.
	Scheduling Intensity	Opens the Scheduling Intensity graph.
	Kernel Call Intensity	Opens the Kernel Call Intensity graph.
	Kernel Blocking Times	Opens the Kernel Service Call Block Times By Service view.
	Actor Instance Graphs	Choose an Actor Instance graph.
	Memory Heap Utilization	Opens the Memory Heap Utilization graph.
	User Event Signal Plot	Opens the User Event Signal Plot graph.
	Communication Flow	Opens the Communication Flow view.
	Statistics Report	Opens the Statistics Report dialog.
	Event Log	Opens the Event Log.
	User Event Log	Opens the User Event Log.
	Kernel Object List	Opens the Kernel Object List.
	Trace Details	Opens the Trace Details window, which displays session-related properties of the current trace, such as the number of events and the length of the trace, as well as additional technical details.
	Trace Warnings	Opens the Trace Warnings window.
	Trace View Settings	This submenu contains options for configuring the color scheme and toggling the display of bookmarks.
	Trace View Mode	Choose a View Mode.
	Time Format	Choose a Time Format from the available options: Trace Time (default) Native Ticks Event Index Wall Clock Time
	Time Offset	Choose a Time Offset from the available options: Relative Earliest Event Relative Latest Event Absolute Time (default)
	Show Tool Panel	Toggles the display of the Tool Panel.

Bookmarks Menu

The Bookmarks menu options allow you to create, organize, export and import bookmarks. All of the bookmarks you create are displayed in this menu. For more information, see Creating and Managing Bookmarks.

Menu	Option	Description
	Add Bookmark	Opens the Add Bookmark window.
	Organize Bookmarks	Opens the Bookmark Organizer window.
	Export Bookmarks	Opens the Save As dialog, through which you can save existing bookmarks to a bookmark file (`.bmk`)
	Import Bookmarks	Opens the Open dialog, through which you can open bookmark files (`.bmk`)
	Current Bookmarks	All current bookmarks are listed at the bottom of the Bookmarks menu. For example, bookmark 619.353.

Help Menu

The Help menu includes the product documentation, a sample custom event definitions file, and diagnostic information about the application.

Menu	Option	Description
	User Manual	Launches the RTX64 SDK Help system, opened to the Tracealyzer section.
	Event Definitions Sample	Opens the Event Definitions Sample folder, which contains the `CustomDefinitions.xml` file. See Creating Custom Definitions for more information.
	Website	Launches percepio.com in the default Web browser.
	Show Diagnostic Log	Opens a log file of the current trace in `.txt` format.
	About Tracealyzer for RTX64	Displays the About window, which contains information specific to the current version and build of Tracealyzer.

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