There are a number of different browsers available, which show
different snatches of the collected profile, in different ways. In the future this separation should disappear as a far more powerful approach is undertaken.
These generate views from the complete set of data recorded during profiling.
| Tool
| Description
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| Director
| Central control view allowing access to other browsers and setting shared range and position.
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| Profile Browser
| Browser onto all the raw profiling data.
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These show data collected by a single profiler.
Browsers can be in either Reactive or Non-Reactive mode. All reactive views are automatically updated so that they all reflect the same subset of data collected during the profiling, and have the same position of interest. Some reactive views may update this shared description, and this is known as synchronising all the reactive views. A browsers current setting is shown in the Reactive entry of the first menu.
The current selection of a browser can be used as a template for setting the synchronised position. The Synchronize with First and Synchronize with Next commands will search for the first position in the profiled data with an entry matching the selection, or the next match after the current synchronised position. The criteria for a successful match is specific for each browser. The aim is to provide a higher level means of synchronising a shared point of interest between views than the arbitrary position number.
A simple context dialog provides an indication of which profiling session a browser is showing data from, and information on the current profiler and range of positions being shown.
