---
name: "testkspy"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kspy"
version: "4:3.5.9-2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/testkspy"
---

# testkspy(1)

show off KSpy's capabilities

## NAME

testkspy - show off KSpy's capabilities

## SYNOPSIS

**testkspy** \[ *generic-options* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**testkspy** is a small application that shows off KSpy's capabilities. It simply uses KSpy to spy on itself.

**KSpy** is a tiny library which can be used to graphically display the QObjects in use by a Qt/KDE app.  In addition to the object tree, you can also view the properties, signals and slots of any QObject.

Basically it provides much the same info as QObject::dumpObjectTree() and QObject::dumpObjectInfo(), but in a much more convenient form.  KSpy has minimal overhead for the application, because the kspy library is loaded dynamically using KLibLoader.

This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit.

## OPTIONS

For a full summary of options, run *testkspy --help*.

## SEE ALSO

Instructions on using KSpy with your own applications can be found in */usr/share/doc/kspy/README*.

## AUTHOR

KSpy was written by Richard Moore \<rich@kde.org\>.\
 This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton \<bab@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).