Map Tool Window

Message Analyzer provides the Map Tool Window to support data analysis in primary viewers that make use of data maps of various types, such as the Gantt and Interaction viewers. The Map window provides a high-level view of data points along with a navigation control that enables you to focus the corresponding primary data viewer on the data field locations that contain the messages you want to analyze. In the Gantt viewer, this means that you can quickly locate specific color-coded message groups on which you want to focus during analysis. For the Interaction viewer, this means that you can quickly locate data points in the Mapping, Diagram, and Chord display formats of the Interaction viewer that contain the messages on which you want to focus your analysis. The modes of operation and zooming capabilities of the Map window are described in the section that follows.

Map Tool Window Controls

The Map window contains several commands that you can utilize from a context menu that displays when you right-click anywhere in the Map window data field. These commands consist of the following:

• Mouse Mode — provides the following commands:

  • Zoom — enables the Zoom mode, where you can create a data selection window by clicking and dragging your mouse across the Map window data field.

    The Zoom mode works together with options of the Zoom item described below, by altering the zooming ratios of the X axis, Y axis, or both X and Y axis together, to enable you to focus on specific messages that you want to analyze. The presets that you can select to change the zoom ratio are accessible from the secondary context menu of the Zoom item described below.

  Tip

  After you create a data selection window, you can click anywhere in the Map window data field and cause the selection window to track your mouse clicks by jumping to that location.

• Pan — enables the Pan mode, where you can drag a fixed-size data selection window across the Map window data field to locate the messages on which you want to focus your analysis.

• Zoom — enables you to change the zoom ratio in the Map window by selecting preset zooming values for the X axis, Y axis, or X and Y axis together, as follows:

  • 1:1
  • Fit
  • In
  • Way In
  • Out
  • Way Out

• Fit Map to Window — by selecting this mode, it enables you to fit the entire data field of the in-focus viewer into the Map window. By unselecting this mode, the Map window data field size no longer encapsulates the data field of the in-focus viewer.