Globals List

The Globals List contains a list of the global variables of the target application.

This list has one list-specific operation: Trace Variable creates a new toplevel window that will contain set statements reflecting writes to the variable. (The trace will contain the last 50 set's by default, the number can be set through the *Variable_trace.savelines option.) Trace Variable handles both scalars and arrays.

For an interesting example of how this works, try the following:

Select an application (for example, tixinspect itself.)
Choose Show Global... from the Globals menu, and enter tkPriv.
Choose Trace Variable from the Globals menu.

You will now be tracking the tkPriv array.

The default list of patterns for the list filter is:

    ^tixPriv.*
    ^tkPriv.*
    ^auto_.*
    ^tk_.*

And is read from the option *Globals_list.patterns.