13.3.5 The Grid LogView

The GridLogView

Figure: The GridLogView

The GridLogView is similar to the TextLogView in that it displays from top to bottom sequential lines of Log data. It differs however in that the values of the data can be displayed as colored blocks similar to the units in the NetView as well as the text output style of the TextLogView.

In addition, the columns of Log data can be arranged in a custom fashion in a 2-D grid for each "line" of data. This is useful especially for MonitorStats which generate a separate column of data for each value recorded from the NetView. For Example: If a MonitorStat was monitoring the activations a 5x5 layer it would generate 25 columns of data. In the GridLogView these 25 columns could be arranged as in a 5x5 grid in the same layout as the units in the monitored Layer.

The header label information in the GridLogView is also different in that is is arranged in the same grid layout as the data and its field header name labels are selectable with the mouse button. The left mouse buttons selects header labels whose data is displayed as colored blocks to be used for scaling the range of the colorbar at the bottom of the GridLogView display. The middle mouse button causes the the header label and its data to be toggled off and removed from the display. The right mouse button brings up an Edit dialog for the header label's GridViewSpec.

Resizing the GridLogView window changes the number of visible data lines.