VS Arduino - Data Tip / Pin Inspect Value not Working

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Eugbug Newbies Offline Posts: 2 Location: Ireland Joined: Jan 12^th, 2014	Data Tip / Pin Inspect Value not Working Jan 12^th, 2014 at 12:49am	Print Post
	When my code stops at at a breakpoint, data tip / pin inspect value doesn't seem to work when I hover the mouse cursor over a variable, although from what I remember it used to do so before (Could have been in Visual Basic). I'm using Atmel Studio and the Visual Micro plugin. Also when I click on "step into", highlighting doesn't advance to the next line of code even though the logic of the code shouldn't prevent this from happening.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Data Tip / Pin Inspect Value not Working Reply #1 - Jan 12^th, 2014 at 1:03am	Print Post
	Hi, Thanks for the question and sorry there is confusion about this. Arduino does not have debugging, normally you have to add serial.print() messages to your code. The Visual Micro debugger attempts to provide something better by injecting special debugger serial.print() messages into a temporary copy of the code during debug compile. The result is that you can only jump between breakpoints using F5. To do so you need to switch on Project property "Micro Debug> Enable Break/Pause". You can read more here also in the wiki. The Youtube video on the debugger overview page is a bit slow at first but answers quite a few questions. I hope that helps.


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Eugbug Newbies Offline Posts: 2 Location: Ireland Joined: Jan 12^th, 2014	Re: Data Tip / Pin Inspect Value not Working Reply #2 - Jan 12^th, 2014 at 1:15am	Print Post
	Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Jan 12^th, 2014 at 1:03am: Hi, Thanks for the question and sorry there is confusion about this. Arduino does not have debugging, normally you have to add serial.print() messages to your code. The Visual Micro debugger attempts to provide something better by injecting special debugger serial.print() messages into a temporary copy of the code during debug compile. The result is that you can only jump between breakpoints using F5. To do so you need to switch on Project property "Micro Debug> Enable Break/Pause". You can read more here also in the wiki. The Youtube video on the debugger overview page is a bit slow at first but answers quite a few questions. I hope that helps. Thanks Tim. That explains everything! Also it took me ages to figure out why execution wasn't stopping at a breakpoint - "Micro Debug> Enable Break/Pause" was turned off in properties. Presumably it is disabled by default to stop 'copters from dropping out of the sky!
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Data Tip / Pin Inspect Value not Working Reply #3 - Jan 12^th, 2014 at 1:30am	Print Post
	Yes it seemed like a good precaution


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