Visualization Tools User's Guide


Analyzing Object Activity with the Object Visualizer

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:


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