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<title>Getting started</title>
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<link href="../../book.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"></head>
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<body><h2>Getting started</h2>
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<p>The topics in this section help you understand
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the basic functionality and workflow in using the Tracing tools. </p>
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For a basic walk-through of OST tracing, see <a href="walk_through.htm">Basic walk-through of tracing</a>.</p>
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<p><b>Click the topics available on the left-hand navigation pane to find tool-specific
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introductions.</b></p>
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<table width="600" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2">
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<td><img src="..\images\tracebuilder.png" alt="TraceBuilder logo">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="../../../com.nokia.tracebuilder.help/html/toc.htm"><b>TraceBuilder</b></a></td>
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<td><p>A tool for adding Open System Traces (OST) to the source
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code. TraceBuilder consists of two components:</p><ul>
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<li>TraceCompiler that parses OST Application Programming Interface (API)
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format from the source files and generates the corresponding decode files. 
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</li>
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<li>TraceBuilder UI that enables you to add and maintain OST traces. </li>
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</ul></td>
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<td><img src="..\images\traceviewer.png" alt="TraceViewer logo">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="../../../com.nokia.traceviewer.help/html/toc.htm"><b>TraceViewer</b></a></td>
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<td><p>A tool for activating, viewing and manipulating traces received from
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a target device. </p></td>
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<td><img src="..\images\traceanalyser.png" alt="TraceAnalyser logo">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="../../../com.nokia.s60tools.traceanalyser.help/html/toc.htm"><b>TraceAnalyser</b></a></td>
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<td height="23"><p>TraceAnalyser is a tool that enables you to measure the
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time consumption of an application and detect timing violations. It also enables
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you to supervise parameters in Open System Trace (OST) traces. </p></td>
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<p>Tracing requires also the following non-Carbide tools:</p>
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<li><b>TraceCompiler</b> &ndash; build time tool used to generate the needed headers and decoding files for traces.</li>
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<li><b>TraceSwitch</b> &ndash; Symbian application used to route traces either to USB or to a file.</li>
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<div id="footer">Copyright &copy;2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved.</div>
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