Memory view

The Memory view of the Debug perspective lets you monitor and modify your process memory. The process memory is presented as a list of so called memory monitors. Each monitor represents a section of memory specified by it's location called base address. Each memory monitor can be displayed in different predefined data formats -- memory renderings. The debugger supports five rendering types -- hexadecimal (default), ascii, signed integer and unsigned integer. The default rendering is displayed automatically on the monitor creation.

The Memory view contains two panes -- the Memory Monitors pane and the Memory Renderings pane. The Memory Monitors pane displays the list of memory monitors added to the debug session currently selected in the Debug view. The content of the Memory Renderings pane is controlled by the selection in the Memory Monitors pane and consists of the tabs that display renderings. The Memory Renderings pane can be configured to display two renderings simultaneously.

Memory view toolbar options

The table below lists the icon3s displayed in the Memory view toolbar.

Icon	Name	Description
	New Memory View	Click to create a new memory view.
	Pin Memory Monitor	Select to pin the memory monitor on top of all other memory monitors.
	Import	Import a previously exported memory monitor.
	Export	Export the selected memory monitor.
	Toggle Memory Monitors Pane	Shows/hides the Memory Monitor pane.
	Toggle Split Pane	Toggles the Memory Renderings pane split.
	Link Memory Rendering Panes	Synchronizes the selection of two memory renderings.
	Switch Memory Monitor	When more than one memory monitor is active, select a different memory monitor to view.
	View Menu > Layout	Switch the Monitors and Rendering panes display between horizontal or vertical orientation.
	View Menu > Preferences	Opens the Preferences window allowing you to set: Reset Memory Monitor - set to reset only visible or all renderings when resetting a memory monitor Padded String - enter strings to show un-retrievable memory Select Codepages - specify the standard to convert memory to ASCII and EBCDIC strings
	Table Rendering Preferences	Specify the memory loading mode to use when rendering scrolls to the end of the buffer.
	Traditional Rendering Preferences	Opens the Traditionally Memory Rendering pane in the Preferences dialog box.
	Find/Replace...	Opens the Find/Replace dialog box to search the Memory Rendering view.
	Find Next	Finds the next occurrence of the search string.

Monitors pane context menu

The Monitors pane context menu inside the Memory view includes:

Icon	Name	Description
	Add Memory Monitor	Adds a new memory address or variable to the Memory Monitors pane.
	Remove Memory Monitor	Removes the selected memory address or variable from the Memory Monitors pane.
	Reset	Resets the current memory monitor view.

Rendering pane context menu

The Rendering pane context menu inside the Memory view includes:

Icon	Name	Description
	Add Rendering	Add a memory rendering pane to display a memory monitor item at a different address or in a different format.
	Remove Rendering	Removes the selected rendering from the Memory view.
	Panes	Enable or disable the showing of the Address, Binary, and Text portions of the rendering view.
	Endian	Toggle between the Little (default) and Big Endian display of memory.
	Text	Choose the character encoding used to convert memory values into text for display. Choices include: ISO-8859-1 (default), US-ASCII, or UTF-8.
	Cell Size	Specify the cell size used to display values in the Binary column. Choices include: 1, 2, 4 (default), and 8 bytes.
	Radix	Specify the radix used to display the values in the Binary column. Choices include: Hex, Decimal Signed, Decimal Unsigned (default), Octal, and Binary.
	Copy To Clipboard	Copies the selected portion of the Rendering pane to the clipboard.
	Go To Address	Opens an edit box to type in a memory address. Press Enter to go to that address and show it in the Rendering pane.
	Reset To Base Address	Resets the Rendering pane to the original base address.
	Refresh	Refreshes the Rendering pane.

Debug information

Working with memory

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