Selecting Column Headers

You can specify which API call data is displayed in the main NI Spy window by selecting various column headers. To select the column headers, select Spy»Options, select the View Selections tab, and select the headers you want to display under Column Headers.

Note  You can modify NI Spy options only when capture is stopped.

Number

This column displays the number of each National Instruments API call.

Description

This column displays the names of the API calls that NI Spy captures.

Status

This column displays each API call's output status value. (For calls made to the NI-488.2 API, this is equivalent to ibsta.)

iberr

This column shows the API call's output error (iberr) value. (This data is available only for calls made to the NI-488.2 API.)

ibcntl

This column shows the API call's output count (ibcntl) value. (This data is available only for calls made to the NI-488.2 API.)

Time

This column displays the API call's start time. The time is in the format hours : minutes : seconds : milliseconds.

Process ID

This column displays the process ID (in hexadecimal format) of the process that made each API call.

Thread ID

This column displays the thread ID (in hexadecimal format) of the thread that made each API call.