Description

The View category includes options to to change the outlook of HWAccess and the print operation of the main view's contents. You may enable disable a docking window. All windows of HWAccess can be enable/disabled with the exception of the main view. The probe entries, watches, messages, parameters and active controls are windows that may dock to certain sides of the application framework or simply float. Enabling or Disabling one of the windows simply shows or hides the particular one.

The Main Bar option shows/hides the toolbar with the main file options.

The Tools Bar option shows/hides the tools control bar. The Tools Bar controls adding/removing libraries, library information and configuration options.

The Status Bar option shows/hides the status window at the bottom of HWAccess. The status bar displays help information about an application component or function.

The Parameters option shows/hides the parameters pane window which is used by the external libraries for navigation of the information they provide. The parameters pane can float or dock left/right within the application.

The Active Controls option shows/hides controls provided by external libraries. Each library optionally may include active controls as part of the GUI it provides. HWAccess provides a template mechanism that allows a library to hook a dialog under this window. Showing or hiding this window is a global switch applicable to all DLLs. At the bottom of the window there is a navigation control that switches among the installed DLLs that support active controls. When no libraries with active controls are present this window is blank but still visible. Adding or removing external libraries is handled by HWAccess dynamically so this window is updated as part of the library insertion/removal options. This window may float or dock left/right of the main application window.

The Messages option shows/hides the message window which is used by the external libraries and HWAccess to display the current action they perform. These messages are only used for information and debugging purposes. Using a mouse right click within the messages window you have the option to erase the current list of messages. The message list stores the last 4000 messages send by the libraries. After that it will erase the oldest messages and replace the with the new ones. The messages window can float or dock to the bottom of the main application.

The Probe window option shows/hides the probe/watches window which is used by the external libraries and HWAccess to display the values of watches they monitor and process. Currently there are 3 columns to describe a watch with HWAccess. The left column is used for the name and the state of a watch. When the state is set the watch is active otherwise is inactive. The mid column displays the current value of the watch and the right column displays the last value of the watch. Using a mouse right click within the Probe window allows the user to enable or disable all watches. To enter/remove, change the period of a watch you will have to change the appropriate options of the external library typically located under the active controls. There are no limits for the number of watches that can be monitored. HWAccess provides comprehensive multi-sample and multi-access services for ports, memory and registers so an external library can monitor multiple H/W resources within a single transaction with the low level driver.

The Resource Activity window option shows/hides a window used by HWAccess to display the traffic of I/O, Memory, MSR Registers and Message exchange between the DLLs and the main application. At the bottom of the window there is a navigation control that switches among the various resource types the monitor supports. This is not related with the watches functions of the external libraries. Watches are fully controled by the external libraries only.

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