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Query Menu

Note: This topic applies to UNIX environments (remote development) only.

The Query menu is accessed by pressing Q on the Character Animator main menu.

The Query menu functions enable you to look at and change the contents of data items. From this menu and its submenus, you can query data items, create a file containing a list of data values, and monitor data items.

Following a successful query, the Query Data-name menu appears on the screen with the queried data-name on the information line and the value of the data item in a window or at the bottom of the screen.

Note:

Monitored variables are not saved between Animator sessions.
When you query a variable the cursor must be on one of the first two characters of the name otherwise the query will not work.