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Setting Preferences
Figure 76: File > Preferences
Dialog Box:
ReplayEngine History
Option
enter a new value into the text field or select from a drop-down list, as seen
in Figure 76.
The second option on the ReplayEngine preference page defines the tool’s
behavior when the history buffer is full. By default, the oldest history will be
discarded so that recording can continue. You can change that so that the
recording process will simply stop when the buffer is full.
Setting Preferences, Options, and X Resources
Setting Preferences
TotalView Variables
In most cases, preferences are the best way to set many features and characteristics.
In some cases, you need have more control. When these situations
occur, you can the preferences and other TotalView attributes using
variables and command-line options.
Older versions of TotalView did not have a preference system. Instead, you
needed to set values in your .Xdefaults file or using a command-line
option. For example, setting totalview*autoLoadBreakpoints to true tells
TotalView to automatically load an executable’s breakpoint file when it
loads an executable. Because you can also set this option as a preference
and set it using the CLI dset command, this X resource has been deprecated.
Deprecated means that while the feature still exists in the current release, there’s no
guarantee that it will continue to work at a later time. We have deprecated all “totalview”
X default options. TotalView still fully supports Visualizer resources. Information
on these Visualizer settings is at
http://www.totalviewtech.com/Documentation/xresources/XResources.pdf.
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