Toolbar¶

The toolbar, also known as “navigation and status panel” occupies the top part of the main window.

The Navigation Panel contains useful tools like Zoom In/Out and Find Edge.

Menu: Menu will open the Menu of GTKWave.
Cut Traces: Cut Traces removes highlighted signals from the display and places them in an offscreen cut/copy buffer for later Paste operations. It also implicitly destroys the previous contents of the cut/copy buffer.
Copy Traces: Copy Traces copies highlighted signals from the display and places them in an offscreen cut/copy buffer for later Paste operations. It also implicitly destroys the previous contents of the cut/copy buffer.
Paste Traces: Paste Traces pastes signals from an offscreen cut/copy buffer and places them in a group after the last highlighted signal, or at the end of the display if no signal is highlighted.
Zoom Fit: Zoom Fit zoom out to display the full range of simulation time. If the baseline marker is set, zooms between the baseline marker and the primary marker.
Zoom In: Zoom In is used to increase the zoom factor around the marker.
Zoom Out: Zoom Out is used to decrease the zoom factor around the marker.
Zoom Undo: Zoom Undo is used to revert to the previous zoom value used. Undo only works one level deep.
Zoom to Start: Zoom to Start is used to jump to the trace’s beginning.
Zoom to End: Zoom to End is used to jump to the trace’s end.
Find Previous Edge: Find Previous Edge moves the marker to the nearest transition on the left side of the primary marker of the last highlighted trace. If the primary marker is not located, it starts from max time.
Find Next Edge: Find Next Edge moves the marker to the nearest transition on the right side of the primary marker of the last highlighted trace. If the primary marker is not located, it starts from min time.
From / To boxes: The “From” and “To” boxes indicate the start and end times for what part of the simulation run shall be visible and can be navigated inside the wave frame. Values can directly be entered into these boxes, and units (e.g., ns, ps, fs) can also be affixed to values. Named marker is also supported, use MX for named marker X.
Reload: Reload will reload the currently displayed waveform. Only available with some dumpfile types.

The Marker Time label indicates where the primary marker is located. If it is not present, a double-dash (”–”) is displayed. The Current Time label indicates where the mouse is pointing. Its function is to determine the time under the cursor without having to activate or move the primary marker. Note that when the primary marker is being click-dragged, the Marker Time label will indicate the delta time off the initial marker click.

When the baseline marker is set. The Current Time label is replaced with the Base Time label that indicates the value of the baseline marker. Then the Marker time label indicates the delta time between the baseline marker and the primary marker.