Visualization Tools User's Guide
The Object Visualizer also provides several options you can use to get
more information about the visualized objects. These options are
available from the popup menus of the icons in the Instances pane
of the Object Visualizer. To access this menu, place the mouse pointer
over an instance icon and press mouse button 2. (You can also select an
instance and then select an option from the Instance menu.)
In addition, the following options on the Options menu apply to
all visualized objects:
- Select Show Animation to enable the animated activity
indicator. This option is selected by default.
- Select Show Message Path to enable the lines drawn to represent
method calls between objects. This option is selected by
default.
- Select Show Object Identifier to label each instance icon with
a unique numeric identifier.
- Select Show Number Of Instances to see a count of the instances
of each class. The total number of instances appears after each class
name in the Classes pane.
- Select Set Font to choose the font used in the Object
Visualizer.
- Select Set Color to choose the colors used in the Object
Visualizer.
- Select Set Delay Time to set the length of time the Object
Visualizer delays after processing and displaying one message, before
proceeding on to the next message. This option makes it possible to
slow application execution in order to more easily see individual method
calls. By default, the Object Visualizer does not insert a
delay.
- Select Reset to reset all objects to their coolest
state.
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