Interact with events in the Configure Displayed Events dialog box to temporarily filter the trace data you do not need from the table pane.

Complete the following steps to display and interact with the Configure Displayed Events dialog box:
  1. In the table pane, click Filter Settings on the View tab to display the Configure Displayed Events dialog box. The type list displays the different sources of trace events.
    Note The dialog box is not available when the table pane does not display any events to filter.
  2. Select an item in the type list to display the corresponding page of the dialog box. Each page includes a list of events that you can choose to filter. You can select or deselect events so they appear or do not appear in the table pane. You also can deselect entire types in the type list to filter all the events of that type.
  3. Optional: Click Save to save the filter settings in a configuration settings (.ini) file or click Load to load an existing configuration file so that you can share filter settings between traces.
  4. Click Ok to close the Configure Displayed Events dialog box and apply the filter.
    Tip You can quickly filter the events that occur in a specified VI by right-clicking the VI and selecting Filter this VI from Display from the shortcut menu.

Filtering events prevents those events from appearing in the table pane. However, the Desktop Execution Trace Toolkit continues to trace filtered events. If you are sure that you do not need to use specific events at all, deselect them from the Capture Settings dialog box to reduce the amount of memory that the toolkit uses.

Tip The numbering of events in the table pane reflects the actual order in which the toolkit captures the events. If the table pane appears to skip numbers, you are filtering the events that occur at the skipped positions.

You can use the Configure Displayed Events dialog box to filter or display events at any time, regardless of whether the toolkit is tracing data. The table pane updates to match the new configuration settings each time you click OK in the Configure Displayed Events dialog box. You also can click Reset Filter to remove all event filters.