Understanding the Tracealyzer User Interface

Tracealyzer provides more than 30 interlinked views of application behavior, including scheduling and timing, interrupts, and interaction between threads and user events generated from your application. Tracealyzer can be used side-by-side with traditional debugging tools and complements the debugger view with a higher level perspective, which is ideal for understanding more complex errors that cannot be analyzed through a typical debugging session.

There are several ways of accessing and arranging these views. The most frequently used views are found in the Navigation Bar (the left-side icons). You can adjust the contents of the Navigation Bar in the Navigation Bar Settings (File menu > Settings).

The default Tracealyzer layout with a session loaded

Use the links below to view topics related to the different concepts and elements of the Tracealyzer user interface.

User Interface Concepts:

UI Concept	Description
View Ports and Synchronization	The part of the trace that is currently in view.
Filtering	By default, filtering is synchronized for all views using the same View Port.
Layouts	A layout is the arrangement of the views in Tracealyzer. You can manage layout options through the Layout menu.

User Interface elements:

UI Element	Description
Menu Options	Tracealyzer options available from these menus: File, Find, View, Layout, Views, Bookmarks, Help
Navigation Bar	The vertical bar on the left side of the Tracealyzer window. The Navigation Bar contains the most common views.
Tool Windows	In addition to its many visualization features, Tracealyzer provides several Tool Windows. You can show/hide these windows through the View menu.
Views	Tracealyzer offers over 30 views, providing different perspectives of session data.