Elements of the status bar

 

The status bar has three main sections, from left to right:

 

•the message line

•program information

•data collection statistics

 

 

The message line

 

Most of the time, you'll just see this:

 

 

When you hover the mouse over a toolbar button or a menu item for a short time, a message appears in the status bar describing the button's action.

 

 

Data collection statistics

 

The data statistics counts give a crude indicator of how data is being collected by the stub and sent to Memory Validator.

 

The collection data has four items

 

•Status indicating whether collection is currently on or off

•the number of data items received from stub waiting to be processed

•the number of data items processed

•the number of memory or resource allocations and miscellaneous data items not yet resolved

 

In the example below, collection is on, with 60 items pending processing, 4943 having been processed and 149 items waiting to be deallocated:

 

 

The boxes stay gray when the values are static, but will be coloured for a few seconds when the value changes

 

 The value increased

 The value decreased

 

 

Once data collection is off, no more data will arrive in the pending processing queue.

 

 

Profiling status

 

The status of the flow trace indicates what is currently happening.

 

•Ready. Waiting to start a run, or a run has finished and is waiting for you to analyze the data.

•Starting. Starting a run (hooks being installed etc).

•Running. Target executable is hooked and running.

•Terminating. Target executable has entered ExitProcess but has not yet finished executing.

•Post Processing. Target executable has finished executing. There is data that still needs to be processed.

 

 

 

 

Target program name

 

This displays No active session when there is no session running, terminating or loaded.

 

 

 

When a session is running, terminated or loaded, this displays the name of the target program followed by a timestamp.