After you have added classes to the Object Visualizer, you can watch as instances of those classes are created and as they send and receive messages. For each instance of a visualized class, a box-shaped icon appears in the right-hand pane of the Object Visualizer window, next to the name of its class.
The Object Visualizer uses animation to depict activity of the object instances it displays. The animation provides three indicators of object activity:
Each icon is divided into two halves, which change color independently:
Note: | The warming and cooling values of visualized objects are relative; in other words, an object is considered hot if it has been very active in comparison with other objects in the application. Therefore, an object might appear hot at first, but then appear cooler as other objects in the application catch up with it. |