Target Navigator view

View processes on a target system

Description:

The selections you make in the Target Navigator view control the information you see in the System Information perspective:

You can customize the Target Navigator view to:

sort processes by PID (process ID) or by name
group processes by PID family
control the refresh rate

To access the Target Navigator view's customization menu, click the menu button () in the Target Navigator view's title bar.

You can reverse a selected sort order by clicking the Reverse sort button () in the view's title bar.

You can enable or disable the automatic refresh by clicking the Automatic Refresh button () in the view's title bar. Entries in the Target Navigator are grey when their data is stale and needs refreshing.

If you've disabled automatic refresh, you can refresh the Target Navigator view by right-clicking and choosing Refresh from the context menu.

The Target Navigator view also let you control the information displayed by the following views:

Connection Information
Malloc Information
Memory Information
Process Information
Signal Information

To control the display in the Information views: In the Target Navigator view, expand a target and select a process:

Target Navigator view; Memory Trace

The currently-displayed Information view updates to show information about the selected process.

Sending a signal

The Target Navigator view lets you send signals to the processes on your target. For example, you can terminate a process by sending it a SIGTERM signal.

To send a signal to a process:

In the Target Navigator view, right-click a process and select Deliver Signal.
Select a signal from the dropdown menu.
Click OK. The IDE delivers the signal to your selected process.

Delivering a signal to a process usually causes that process to terminate.

Updating the views

To update the views in the System Information perspective: In the Target Navigator view, expand a target and select a process. (You can also select groups of processes by using the Ctrl or Shift keys.) The views reflect your selection.

The data displayed in the System Information perspective is updated automatically whenever new data is available.

Adding views to the System Information perspective

By default, some views don't appear in the System Information perspective. To add a view to the perspective:

From the main menu, select Window-->Show View and select a view.
The view appears in your perspective.
If you want to save a customized set of views as a new perspective, select Window-->Save Perspective As from the main menu.

Some of the views associated with the System Information perspective can add a noticeable processing load to your host CPU. You can improve its performance by:

Closing the System Information perspective when you're not using it.
Closing unneeded views within the perspective. You can instantly reopen all the closed views by selecting Window-->Reset Perspective from the main menu.
Reducing the refresh rate (as described above).
Minimizing or hiding unneeded views.