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Local view

The first grid in the object tool gives information about the current stack element. Namely, it provides the current value of the parameters that were passed to the corresponding feature, the value of the local variables, as well as the value of the Result, if this feature is a function.

All objects can be expanded to see the value of their attributes. They are also pickable, so that it is possible to drop them onto the object view , an expression evaluator tool (alias Watch tools), or an editor. It is also possible to use the set slice size command with SPECIAL objects or NATIVE_ARRAY (dotnet) objects.

Specific case for .NET system :

When the system is stopped, the first item of the local view displays the module name for the feature where we are stopped.

When an exception occurs (for instance, an assertion violation), the local view will also display the exception information :