Common Inspect Commands

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The Inspect windows provide shortcut menus containing commands relevant to the data being inspected.

To display the object line shortcut menu, press ALT + 0, or right-click the object line. The following commands may be present in an object line shortcut menu:

Symbol Service: Invokes the Symbol Service feature.
Print (ALT + P): Prints the object in the Console window.
Pretty Print: Formats and prints the object in the Console window.
Copy: Copies the object to the *obj* variable.
Log: Copies the current contents of the Inspect dialog box to the Trace window. If logging is active, the contents are also copied to the trace log.
Update (ALT + U): Updates the Inspect dialog box to show the most recent status of the inspected object.

The element line shortcut menu appears after highlighting the element line and right-clicking. The following commands may appear on the element line shortcut menu:

Inspect (ALT + I): Calls Inspect and passes it the element value as an argument.
Descend (ALT + D): Calls Inspect, passes it the element value as an argument, and closes the current Inspect window.
Copy: Copies the value of the inspected element to the *obj*variable.
View Source: Activates a text editor window containing the selected text. If the text was loaded from the Console window or from a list representation, this command activates a new text editor window.

The default command for an element line, invoked by pressing ENTER, is the Inspect command.