Menu Options

Jump to a menu in this topic to view information on its options.

Menus:

 

File Menu

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

Option Description

Open File

Choose a monitoring session file to open and analyze.
Open Folder Choose a monitoring session folder.

Reload Trace

Reloads the current session.

Show Trace Folder

Shows the trace folder in the file system.

Settings

Launches the Settings dialog through which you can configure Tracealyzer settings.

See Configuring Tracealyzer for more information.
Keyboard Mapping Opens the Keyboard Mapping dialog, through which you can assign keyboard shortcuts to Tracealyzer views and common actions.

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.
Project In the Project submenu, you can choose whether to reopen the last project on Tracealyzer startup and set the current project as the default project.

Recent Traces

Displays a list of recently opened session folders.
Start New Tracealyzer for RTX64 Starts a new session of Tracealyzer for RTX64.

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.

Option Description
All Views Lists the available Tracealyzer views and allows you to open a view directly from the window.

Open Finder

Search the open session for actor instances, service calls and user events, or jump to a particular point in the session. For more information, see Using the Finder Window.
Quick Find Opens the Quick Find bar, which performs fast searches but only shows a limited number of hits. Use the arrow keys and Enter key, or the mouse, to select something from the list of hits, or refine the search keywords. When something is selected, the default behavior is to close the Quick Finder. Cancel the search with the Close button, or by pressing Escape.
Go to Timestamp Jump to a particular timestamp in the session.

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.

Option Description

Tool Windows

Opens the Tool Windows window, which allows you to show/hide various windows.

Save Filter from Current View

Saves the filter from the current view to an XML file.

Load Filter to Current View

Load a saved filter (XML file) and apply it to the current view.

Auto Load Filter

Auto-loads the most recent filter.

Trace Overview

Opens the Trace Overview window. This window provides information on the open session, including the trace length, number of events, and bookmarks. It also includes a session timeline.

Application Warnings

Opens the Application Warnings window, which displays all warnings with a corresponding timestamp for each.

Reset all views to default View Port

Resets all open views to their default view.

Set Color Scheme

This submenu contains options for configuring the color scheme and grouping elements by color.
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)
Horizontal Views

Configure settings for displaying information in horizontal views:

  • Interval Draw Mode
  • Interval Resolution
  • Toggle Legends
  • Toggle Scroll Bars
  • Toggle Bookmarks

Layout Menu

The Layout menu includes options that allow you to manage the Tracealyzer layout.

Option Description

Reset to Default Layout

Resets to the default layout.

Remember Layout

When enabled (default), Tracealyzer remembers the previously used layout and restores it as the default layout when started.
Clear Default Layout Clears the default layout.

Layout Locked

When enabled, views in the current layout cannot be rearranged.

Layouts

Restore a previously saved layout.

Save New Layout

Saves the current layout with a name you specify.

Manage Layout

Rename or remove a saved layout.

Views Menu

The Views menu includes options that allow you to open the various views available in Tracealyzer.

Option Description

Trace View, Vertical

Opens a new vertical Trace View window. This is the main view of Tracealyzer for RTX64, showing all recorded events.

Trace View, Horizontal

Opens a new horizontal Trace View window. This is the main view of Tracealyzer for RTX64, showing all recorded events.

Actor Instance Graphs

Opens the Actor Instance graphs, which display timing properties of actor instances, like execution time, response time, response interference and fragmentation.

Actor Migrations

This view is not used by RTX64.

Actor Statistics Report

Opens the Actor Statistics Report dialog, which provides performance statistics for tasks and traced ISRs

CPU Load Graphs

Opens the CPU Load Graphs, which display CPU usage over time

Context Switch Intensity

Opens the Context Switch Intensity graph, which shows the amount of context switches over time

Priority Changes

Displays changes to a task’s scheduling change priority.

Service Blocking

Opens the Service Call Block Time graph, which displays the kernel blocking times of service calls, i.e., the time between entry and return of blocking calls, for all objects or an object you specify.

Service Intensity

Opens the Service Call Intensity graphs, which display the number of Service Calls over time.

Communication Flow

Opens the Communication Flow graph, which offers a quick overview of the communication and synchronization between actors in a trace, through message queues, semaphores and mutexes.
Object History Opens the Object History view, which displays all service calls for a specific event, or memory allocations (malloc/free) on a Heap event.

Object List

Opens the Object List, which shows all objects.

User Event Signal Plot

Opens the User Event Signal Plot graph, which allows for plotting data from user events arguments.

Interval Plot

Opens the Interval Plot view, which plots the duration of intervals over time. This is ideal if you want to study how the distance in time between two important events varies. For more information on intervals, see Intervals and State Machines.

Interval Timeline

Opens the Interval Timeline view, through which you can plot state intervals over time. This effectively provides a software logic analyzer. For more information on intervals, see Intervals and State Machines.

Intervals and State Machines

Opens the Intervals and State Machines view, through which you can create intervals and state machines to visualize.

New State Machine

Opens the New State Machine dialog, through which you can either create a simple or advanced state machine.

State Machines Graph

Opens the State Machines Graph, which displays a directed graph showing the state transitions in the trace as defined by a state machine.

Memory Heap Utilization

Opens the Memory Heap Utilization graph, which visualizes the heaps in the current trace.

Event Log

Opens the Event Log, which displays the trace as a textual event listing, with powerful filtering tools. The view also supports exporting the trace as text file.

Event Intensity

Opens the Event Intensity graph, which displays the number of events per event type, during the selected interval.
Interval Coverage Opens the Interval Coverage graph, which displays the percentage of time covered by intervals in each channel within a set.

View Port Overview

Opens the View Port Overview window, which shows the view ports that are used by any view.

Bookmarks Menu

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

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)

Trace Bookmarks

Lists the bookmarks in the current session. For example, bookmark 619.353.

Window Menu

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

Option Description

New Window

Opens a new Tracealyzer window.

Help Menu

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

Option Description

User Manual

Launches the RTX64 SDK Help system, opened to the Tracealyzer section.

Website

Launches intervalzero.com in the default Web browser.

About Tracealyzer for RTX64

Displays the About window, which contains information specific to the current version and build of Tracealyzer.

 

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