Message List
The Message List area of the Memento GUI displays a time-ordered list of a selected set of messages.
The area has a tabular structure. There is one table row per message. There is one column per message data field.
Data Fields
The following data fields area available for display into in the Message List:
- Seq: the Sequential Number assigned by Memento when a message is entering the Memento Ring Buffer.
- Time: the Time attribute value assigned by the message contributor and expressed in seconds with 6 decimals.
- Delta: the time offset relative to the user-defined time reference; the value is expressed in seconds with 6 decimals.
- PID: the Process ID attribute value optionally assigned by the message contributor
- TID: theThread ID attribute value optionally assigned by the message contributor
- Card: theCard ID attribute value optionally assigned by the message contributor
- Connector: theConnector ID attribute value optionally assigned by the message contributor
- Level: the Level attribute value assigned by the message contributor
- Kind:the Kind attribute value assigned by the message contributor
- Trace: the text of the message body
- Comment: a user-editable data field
Data Fields Visibility Settings
The user may display or hide each data-field column separately. The dialog box opens by right-clicking on the column headers.
User-defined Time Reference
The user may use the time stamp of a message as the time-reference for the Delta data field.
This is achieved by right-clicking on a message to open a dialog box and then clicking on "Set time reference".
Injection of Current Time
The user may request Memento to inject a message containing the UTC time and date in the Memento Ring.
This is achieved by right-clicking on a message to open a dialog box and then clicking on "Inject Current Time Trace".