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PROGRAMMING => Freebasic => Topic started by: rdc on February 09, 2007

Title: DebugView
Post by: rdc on February 09, 2007

DebugView (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/debugview.mspx) is a handy little program to monitor debug information from your program. It works quite well with FreeBasic. It is useful in cases where you don't want to stop the program from executing yet see variable values.

Here is an example of usage in FB:

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option explicit

#include once "windows.bi"

'Define debug string
dim DebugOut as String
dim i as integer

For i = 1 to 10
    DebugOut = "i: " & str(i)
    OutputDebugString DebugOut
    Sleep 10
Next

print "Done."
sleep
end



Title: Re: DebugView
Post by: Shockwave on February 10, 2007

Useful. Very useful.

K+

Title: Re: DebugView
Post by: Jim on February 10, 2007

FWIW, this also works in C or C++ with devc, and if you're using VisualStudio Express, the output is caught by the debugger and shown in one of the IDE windows.

Very, very handy indeed.

Jim