Monitor properties...

Displays the Monitor Properties window, which allows you to select the settings for monitoring variables or expressions.

Use the Monitor Properties window to set the following:

• The window into which the variable or expression being monitored is placed.
  
• For popup expression windows, how long the monitor windows display.

Monitor Location Group Heading

Choose one of the following radio buttons to select the monitor window that opens when you select a variable or expression to monitor. The selections you can make, and the corresponding windows, are:

Popup

Display the variable or expression in a popup expression window.

Display the variable or expression in the Private Monitor window.

Display the variable or expression in the Program Monitor window.

Display the variable or expression in the Storage window.

Save File Entry Field

Use this field to identify the file where all monitor windows will write their contents when the Save to file choice is selected.

Number of elements to show entry field

Use this field to identify the maximum number of structure or class elements that will be displayed at one time for a given variable in the monitors.

Enable bubble variables check box

Select this option if you want a bubble value for the contents of a variable to appear as you place the mouse or the variable in the Source, Disassembly, and Mixed view windows.

Popup Duration Group Heading

If you select Popup from the Monitor Location group heading, select one of the following radio buttons to specify how long the popup expression window displays:

Step/run

The monitor window closes when the next step command or Run is executed.

The monitor window closes when execution stops in a new source file.

This monitor window is associated with a specific source window and closes when the associated source window closes.