This guide describes the WindView™ graphical analysis tool for IRIX.™ WindView allows developers to observe the instantaneous timing of the IRIX kernel and its interactions with applications.
The following summarizes the contents of this guide:
Chapter 1, “About WindView,” provides an overview of the WindView program, including its features and architecture.
Chapter 2, “Collecting Event Data,” describes simple and advanced procedures for collecting data for analysis.
Chapter 3, “Working with Event Data,” describes how to examine and analyze event data.
Chapter 4, “Event Dictionary,” describes the events that you will see.
Chapter 5, “Command Reference,” provides an alphabetical reference of all the WindView commands and icons.
Chapter 6, “X Resources and Tcl Configuration Commands,” describes how you can customize the WindView GUI and operation.
 | Note: The figures in this manual show the Motif window manager. Your WindView windows will look different if you are using a different window manager. |
Included with the IRIX for WindView product are two files that describe in detail the Tcl language as it is used with WindView. After installation, these files are contained in the directory /usr/WindView/docs. Their names are tclgd.ps and tclman.ps. The file tclgd.ps contains “Tcl: An Embedded Command Language,” a description of Tcl by its creator, John K. Ousterhout. The reference page for Tcl is in tclman.ps.
The following books contain more information that can be useful to a real-time programmer.
For a description of the support IRIX provides to real-time programs, see the REACT/Pro Programmer's Guide, part number 007-2499-001.
For a survey of all IRIX facilities and manuals, Programming on Silicon Graphics Systems: An Overview. This useful manual, part of the IRIX Developer Option, is new in version 5.3; part number 007-2476-001.
For details of the architecture of the CPU, processor cache, processor bus, and virtual memory, MIPS R4000 Microprocessor User's Manual by Joseph Heinrich, Prentice-Hall, 1993 (ISBN 0-13-105925-4); and the MIPS R10000 Microprocessor User's Manual, available in 1995.
For details of many IRIX system facilities not covered in this book, Topics in IRIX Programming, part number 007-2478-001; and MIPS Compiling and Performance Tuning Guide, 007-2479-001 (both are available with the IRIX Developer's Option).
For programming inter-computer connections using sockets, IRIX Network Programming Guide, part number 007-0810-050.
The Definitive Guides to the X Window System, Motif Edition, published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., for information on the X Window System and Motif.
The OpenWindows Version 3 User's Guide and/or DeskSet Reference Guide, by SunSoft™, a Sun Microsystems Company, for information on the OpenWindows window manager.
This guide follows these conventions:
In command syntax descriptions and examples, square brackets ([]) surround an optional argument. (Square brackets are also used with shell commands as metacharacters.)
Variable parameters are in italics. You replace these variables with the appropriate string or value.
In text descriptions, filenames, IRIX commands, process names, routines, functions, window buttons, new and emphasized terms are in italics.
System messages and displays are shown in typewriter font.
Bold typewriter font is for user input and non-printing characters. For example: <Return>.
This guide uses the standard UNIX® convention for referring to entries in IRIX documentation. The entry name is followed by a section number in parentheses. For example, rcp(1C) refers to the rcp online reference page.