The following tips and tricks give some helpful ideas for increasing your productivity and ease the work with Memory Analyzer.
Tip | Description |
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Shortcuts |
Ctrl-Q - Opens the Query Browser Ctrl-H - Opens the history of executed queries. Alt-I - Opens a popup menu that explains the icons |
Quick Search |
Just start to type while you are in the heap editor, all the
matches will be highlighted. This quick search starts is activated
when 3 or more letters are provided.
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Filter |
To show only rows of a table or tree matching a filter,
click the top row, or press enter when the top row is selected.
Then type the required filter for the column. Multiple filters can be used.
In the example the "(1,909 filtered)" on the totals row means 1909 rows have been excluded by the filter.
For text columns a regular expression is used as a filter.
For numeric columns a numeric comparison is used as a filter.
Use one of the following:
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Resize and reorder columns |
To resize or rearrange columns using the keyboard select a filter entry
for the column as above.
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Keyboard navigation of trees |
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Notes, Hyperlinks in Notes View |
Notes View recognizes and highlights object addresses. Activating
the hyperlink brings up a context menu which contains actions for
this particular object.
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Copy To Clipboard |
Use Ctrl C to copy the selection to the clipboard. The data will
keep its structure:
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Manage the history of opened heap dumps |
Heap Dump History view offers a set of context menu actions to
manage the history of opened heap dumps:
![]() Delete Heap Dump action removes the heap dump from the history, but not from the file system. To find a heap dump in the file system use Explore in File System context menu action |
Manage editor tabs |
Right click on the Heap Editor tab will open a context menu to
manage the tabs. It might be very helpful when many tabs are open.
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Link Inspector View with Heap Editor |
Object Inspector View shows the details for the single selected
object. The view updates itself with every change in the
selection. Sometimes it is interesting to compare two or more
objects or just to capture the view. To do so use
Link with Snapshot
context menu. The Inspector view will keep its data. To have
another Inspector view, open it via
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Value tab in Inspector View |
The Object Inspector View shows the details for the single selected
object. The value tab shows the value as given by the
name resolver extension point.
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