View panel
A view panel is located on the left side of the Network Monitor. This panel is similar to the view panel in the Network Configurator. The view panel is a horizontally resizable panel in Network Configurator and Network Monitor.
The view panel lists all views in the current mvw file in sorted order. These views can only be single-selected. The selected view is shown in the layout panel. By default, the all_threads view is automatically selected.
If any view is changed without being saved, then an asterisks (*) is appended to the view file name in the title.
There are two types of views in the view panel:
- The built-in views includes
the all_threads view, process views and group views. The all_threads view
contains all threads in the Network Configurator. The IDE creates a process view
for each process. The process view name is named with the syntax,
process_process name.
The IDE also creates a group view for every group and is named with the syntax group_group name. All default created views are refreshed based on the NetConfig file when Network Configurator/Network Monitor is opened.
NetConfig can be changed separately from the view file. The views in the old view file might not be consistent with the new NetConfig file, especially for default created views. The refresh is performed to makes sure the default created views are up-to-date.
- User-created views are used
to view threads/processes/groups, and can contain the sub-view which references
the other views.
If a thread is created in a group or process view in Network Configurator, then by default the group/process of the newly created thread is the group/process that is currently selected.
For the all_threads view and user created views in the Network Configurator, the default process name of a new thread is the site name. The default group name is blank.
You can change the process/group of a thread in a selected view in Network Configurator. If the new process/group does not belong to the selected view, then there is a warning message after you click
The new process/group of the thread thread_name does not belong to current view. The thread_name will be removed from this view. to commit the change:After dismissing the warning message, the changed thread is removed from the current view. It is added to the view to which it belongs.