Kideia / News: Recent posts

- support for "method bodies" added
- major performance improvements
- filters can be stored for later reuse
- improved C# support
- re-design of trace parser configuration

- GTA++ now also available for linux
- tool for simple performance analysis added
- usibility improved
- documentation improved

- this is a bugfix release only
- trace2graph has been proven to be stable and therefore major version number has been changed

- applies some bug fixes
- enhances error handling
- enhances usability

see release notes

The Graphical Trace Analyser (GTA++) is a tool which can help analysing trace files.

Features:
- parses trace files and shows enter-leave-method traces in a table
- allows to navigate the so created call flow
- allows to hide unwanted traces
- supports searching the trace
- supports marking interesting traces
- shows a call stack for the selected event
- supports ctags tag databases to "jump-to-source" from a trace line
- currently only runs on Microsoft Windows (2000/XP)

- applies two small bugfixes

- support for printing added (see README)
- support for more compact layout (for printing) added

- basic support for "markers" added
- begin and end of a call stack path are now "marked"

- masks can be applied to mark interesting nodes and events
- manipulators can be applied to modify the graph
- CallStackMask: takes a method and marks the call stack of it

basically internal refactoring to prepare features of the next release

Trace2Graph generates sequence charts from trace files to simplify analysis of call flows.

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