Debug issue

Question

I had a break point in a form,
set step on, run the exe.
debug window pops up, I can watch certain values,
But I'm unable to see the command window.
I wish to switch to the command window so that i can test some variable changes or view different table, cursors.
How can I make the command window visible?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In exe set step is ignored, no?

Debug in IDE.

Answer 2

SET STEP ON works in both prgs or forms. The command window simply not available.
I can open another VFP to view the changes in data, but not variables.
What is "Debug in IDE"?

Thanks.

Answer 3

Try with

SET ASSERTS ON

and

ASSERT .f.

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Systems Analyst

Answer 4

Get an error while put these 2 lines in main.prg

"Assertion failure on line ..... of procedure main."

Answer 5

In VFP

View=>Toolbars check "debugger"

Put This command in your Main.prg

SET ASSERTS ON

Put this command in your form.method where you want to debug

ASSERT .f.

On Messagebox "Assertion failure on line ..... " click on "debug" and open "Trace window" and 'Watch window" from debugger toolbar.

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Systems Analyst

Answer 6

It works like my set step on command.
The command window still does not show up. Thanks again.

Answer 7

SET STEP ON works in both prgs or forms. The command window simply not available.
I can open another VFP to view the changes in data, but not variables.
What is "Debug in IDE"?

Thanks.

I didn't say it wouldn't work for prgs or forms. It would work there and more like classes, menus ... What I am saying "set step on" is ignored in an executable and you are saying exe. Which version of VFP are you using that lets you to step code from an exe.

IDE is Integrated Development Environment. That is where you develop applications, write code, debug etc (the place when you launch VFP). You would simply use IDE to debug your code and set _screen.visible to .t. if it is not already. Once you get to debugger  you can go to command window from menu or Ctrl+F2.

Answer 8

Sorry, I might mispresent the situation.

In Main.prg

_Screen.Visible=.t.

Run the application from the command window by

Set step on
locate the exe file and click it to open.

This still did not bring up the command window if pressing Ctrl+ F2

Answer 9

Hmm I never thought to stepping over an exe run from command window. Why don't you instead run the 'main.prg' instead of exe so you could easily step + go to command window etc. 

Answer 10

You are right. I should run the main.prg instead of exe. I didn't do so because I kept on hitting errors as some procedures called interfered with some new objects programatically created.