The Memory Window

Overview

The Memory Window allows users to display the contents of collected memory. The Memory Window Preferences controls all of the display characteristics of the Memory Window.

Memory Window topics:

When selected, casues the Memory Window to update the Display.
Forces the Memory Window to update the Display.
Opens the Memory Window Preferences dialog.

Memory Display

Like the Register Window, the Memory Window Display is organized into a spreadsheet. The address of any cell in the Display can be determined by appeding the row and column headers for the cell. Optionally, an ASCII display of the memory appears at the right. Any non-ASCII-representable byte in memory will appear in the ASCII Display as a control character (a dot, ".", by default). The Memory Preferences Dialog may be used to alter the appearance of the Memory Window. Any uncollected memory will appear as "N/A", indicating that this memory was not collected when the trace experiment was run.

To navigate the Memory Window, use the mouse and click the cell of interest. As an alternative, pressing the TAB key on the keyboard will focus successive cells, from left to right, top to bottom. The focus will wrap from the bottom of the Display to the top.

Memory Pop-up Menu

Clicking the right mouse button while the mouse cursor lies within the bounds of any cell will allow users to:
Auto Update
When selected, the Memory Window will track changes in memory shown in the Display. Cells in which changes have occured will be highlighted. When not selected, the Memory Window is "frozen", representing a "snapshot" of memory.
Update Now
Causes the Memory Window to update all the cells shown.
Go To address
The Memory Window Display is updated to show memory starting at address address.
Open New Window at address
A new Memory Window is opened, displaying memory at address address
Memory Preferences...
Opens the Memory Window Preferences for editing the appearance of the Memory Window Display.

Memory Window Preferences

Memory Window Preference Dialog governs the appearance of the Memory Window: the total number of bytes displayed, the size of each cell, ASCII control character.

Size of the Display Cells

This attribute controls how many bytes appear in each cell. Valid cell sizes in the Memory Window may be:
Byte
Each cell is exactly one byte
Half Word
Cells are displayed with two bytes
Word
Each cell contains four bytes
Double Word
Cells contain eight bytes
Float
Each cell contains four bytes, displayed as a floating point number
Double Float
Cells are displayed as floating point, eight bytes each

Format of the Display Cells

The Format option of the Memory Preferences Dialog governs how the debugger represents the memory. Possible representations include:
Binary
The values are shown as binary numbers
Signed Decimal
The values are shown as signed decimal numbers
Octal
Each cell is represented as an octal number
Unsigned Decimal
Values are displayed as unsigned decimals
Hex
Memory is displayed as a hexadecimal number. This is the default.

Size of the Memory Window

The size of the memory window determines how much memory is actually presented to the user. The total number of bytes shown can either be determined by the size of the window, in which case resizing the Memory Window will cause more or less memory to be displayed, or fixed at some specified number of bytes. By default, the Memory Window shows 128 bytes of memory.

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous memory preferences include the option to display the ASCII representation of the memory, including what character to use for non-ASCII bytes (the "control" character). Additionally, users may specify the number of bytes per row, either four, eight, sixteen, or thirty-two. The default is sixteen bytes per row.