Object Display 

 

1. Standard display

2. Special functions

3. Navigation

 

1. Standard Display

The Object Display tool enables you to display objects and data objects together with their technical properties. It consists of two views, which are represented by the tab titles Objects and Display. The Objects tab contains the names of the objects selected by the user and their current status in the form of a history for special data objects.

To see the Individual Display, double-click the name of an object. In this view, first the object name and the view of the object are listed, followed by the column overviews and their entries. Similar to the list in the Overview of Variables, all the properties of the objects contain the following specifications:

• Status
• Binding
• Visibility
• Attribute
• Value type
• Value
• Hexadecimal value
• Technical type
• Absolute type
• Alias
• Full name
• Read-only flag

 

 

 The entry in the Object field gives information on the type of object that is described in the chapter Names of Anonymous Storage Objects. It is used in the same manner for the classic and for the new Debugger. In addition, you can save objects locally using Tool Services.  

 

2. Special Functions

To display events, references, and inheritance hierarchies, there are functions available. These are placed as icons in the margin to the left of the tool.

The first time the Object Display tool is called, the system branches to the Attributes list. The objects are listed according to class affiliation in the sequence of their class hierarchy. The hierarchical display can be cancelled by activating the function in the icon Superclass on/off, which is directly beside the View input field. The View input field, in turn, allows you to limit the attribute display and is supported by an input help (F4). In the above graphic, the class is specified in this field. This means that only the attributes of this class and its superclasses are visible. 

 

 

If you call the Display Results function, you will see results list. Their handlers will be visible if you expand the event node that is shown on the screen. As with the attributes, you can limit the events in the View field.

If you call the Display References function, you see the references list. Their names are the same as those given in the section Names of Anonymous Storage Objects. Finally, the Inheritance Hierarchy function displays the entire inheritance hierarchy in tree form. Setting limitations for the view is not possible for these two functions.

 

 

3. Navigation

So that an object or a data object can be included in the object display at all, you first need to double-click the object name in the Variable column of the Overview of Variables. In the individual display, simply double-click on  a component of the object and you will get to the appropriate special display.