Sessions Output

At any moment during the execution of a script, or after the script has finished, this tab contains a Tcl Code/Expression Analyzer tab for the Main execution thread and additional tabs for every parallel script step or connected device session (Figure:Sessions Output Tab).

Figure:Sessions Output Tab

When working with multiple scripts opened at the same time in the GUI (MDI functionality), this tab displays information for the currently executing test script.

The Tcl Code/Expression Analyzer displays Tcl code- and expressions-related runtime information for all script steps pertaining to the Main thread. You can choose to show only the output of a particular step by clicking into the Show
output from:
drop-down and selecting a step.

For each step of an executed shared procedure, the Show output from: drop-down control displays a step entry prefixed by the procedure name.

In addition to the main Tcl Code/Expression Analyzer tab, at script execution time additional tabs are created as follows:

  • A new Tcl Code/Expression Analyzer tab is created for every script step executing in parallel.
  • When the script steps connect to configured devices using device sessions, a new tab is created for each connected session, displaying the output of the pertaining steps.

While in the Sessions Output tab, the following operations can also be performed using the toolbar buttons:

Table:Session Output Tab Toolbar Buttons

Button
Action Performed

Navigate the messages sequence up or down by highlighting the corresponding text output.

Clears the information from the current tab.

Adjusts the width of the information messages such that they fit into the current dimension of the pane.

Brings up a dialog enabling you input a string that is searched for in all panes. Search can be performed taking into account the case or not.

Enables you to save the tab content into a .txt file.

At script execution time, when a pane's content exceeds a predefined defined size (1 MByte), messages in excess are dropped and are no longer displayed in the GUI. This condition is indicated by a icon that appears in the pane upper right corner.
When messages pertaining to a particular step are dropped, that stepped is also removed from the Show output from: drop-down control.