Profiling Console view

The Profiling Console view displays output data and error messages from the application that you are profiling. It also accepts your inputs to the application you are profiling. Here is an example:

Profiling console showing outputs from process

Controls

There are three types of controls in the Profiling Console view:

Control from the pane
Editing control inside the view
Pop up controls

Control from the pane

There is a collection of controls available from the Profiling Console's pane.

: Terminates the currently profiled process.

: Removes all terminated processes' console output from the console.

: Forces the console not to scroll when the data changes.

: Deletes all content from the view.

: Displays the console for a different process.

: Prevents the console from refreshing its contents when another process is selected.

Editing control

You can type, copy, cut, and paste inside the console view. When you press Enter the material you typed or pasted is input to whatever is being profiled.

Pop up controls

You can also right click for some additional editing controls, as shown below:

Picture of the Profiling Console view showing application output, and the view's menu and its active choices: Select All, Go to Line, and Clear View

Go to Line...: Provides a convenient way to jump to a specified line number
Clear: Deletes all content from the view.
Terminate: Terminates the currently profiled process.

Related concepts
Overview of the Profiling Tool

Related tasks
Profiling an application

Related references
Profiling monitor view