Displaying and changing items

Items are displayed using these commands:

Table 1. Commands Displaying items
Item	Command
variables	VARIABLE
structures	STRUCTURE
array elements	ARRAY
type attributes for a variable	TYPE
pointer locates information for a variable	PLOCATES

The VARIABLE command lets you look at successive elements of an array. However, the need to manually update the array indices to view the desired array element becomes tiresome.

If the array is a structure component, use the STRUCTURE command to scroll through all elements of the array.

If the array is actually a substructure with multiple components you must spend the time to scroll past the components which are not relevant to the problem at hand. The ARRAY command helps in these situations.

When you use the ARRAY command, you select the initial element to be displayed using the same syntax as the VARIABLE command. The significant differences are:

When the LSM Information window is scrolled forwards past the end of the current variable information display, the next element in the array is displayed.
When the LSM Information window is scrolled backwards past the beginning of the current variable information display, the previous element in the array is displayed.

The display of the information about items persists until you:

Issue the same command, but without item arguments.
Issue a CLOSE command against the window.
Update the information in the window, with a command such as VARIABLE, ARRAY, CALLERS, EVALUATES, PLOCATES, LANGUAGE STATUS or MAP.
The target program completes execution.
The target program execution progresses beyond the item's defined scope.

You can change the data displayed by a VARIABLE, STRUCTURE, UNION or ARRAY command by overtyping it.