Re: Suppressing watch breakpoint popup

Dave,
Unfortunatly, that feature (while much desired) does not exist in the ILE debugger (green screen or SEP).
The Watch function will halt execution when the variable being watched changes and display its own window telling you that it has changed.
In the green screen debugger, it is a pain in the A** to get back to the source debug session from the watch break screen to see what statement the change occured on and what the new value is.


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----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Shaw <daveshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: wdsci-l <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:51:55 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Suppressing watch breakpoint popup

Rick,

I want it to break when the variable changes, which is why I set the Watch Breakpoint. I just don't need the pop-up to tell me that it's gotten a hit. Edit is greyed out on the Watch Breakpoint. I can remove or disable it, but then it won't break when it changes. And no, I don't want to set a breakpoint on every Eval and every Read and Chain where this variable could be changed, as there are more than 50 of them in this ugly old program, and I don't need it to break unless this particular variable changes.

Dave Shaw
Mohawk Industries

----- Original Message -----
From: <Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Suppressing watch breakpoint popup

Dave,

I have to ask, if you don't want the pop-up why did you set a watch
breakpoint? That's the root cause.

More directly to your question, have you tried right click on the
breakpoint in the breakpoint view? There should be an option to edit
the breakpoint. If you click next it should display a window that
contains the variable being watched. If you can remove it the pop-ups
should go away.

Rick