VS Arduino - at breakpoint, how to step into ??

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Tien Doan Newbies Offline Posts: 6 Joined: Jan 15^th, 2014	at breakpoint, how to step into ?? Jan 16^th, 2014 at 2:47pm	Print Post
	This seems really dumb. I think I looked at all the debug videos but nowhere this is mentioned (I assume that is b/c this should be obvious). Well, not for me somehow. I got the program to compile, upload, and run to the breakpoint (Micro debug=true, enable break/pause= true) but when I want to "step-into" the code (which I expect that to mean continue program execution one line at a time ?!?), a popup would appear informing me that a process is already running and do I want to re-compile and re-upload??? Confused
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12202 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: at breakpoint, how to step into ?? Reply #1 - Jan 16^th, 2014 at 3:25pm	Print Post
	Hi pressing F5 once will continue to the next breakpoint and again (quickly) will ask if you want to stop debug and upload. Or you can close the serial window to stop the debug. Arduino does not have any debugging, you have to add serial.print messages to your code. This debugger does the same in the background and avoids the need for you to hack your code. As such it can only step from breakpoint to breakpoint.


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Tien Doan Newbies Offline Posts: 6 Joined: Jan 15^th, 2014	Re: at breakpoint, how to step into ?? Reply #2 - Jan 17^th, 2014 at 6:11pm	Print Post
	Got it. Hadn't had the time to try it out but u will hear from me if it doesn't work Guess I will be using this http://www.visualmicro.com/post/2012/05/05/12-Make-use-of-the-DEBUG-symbol-in-ar... a bit. Thank you and have a nice weekend Tim. With regards.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12202 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: at breakpoint, how to step into ?? Reply #3 - Jan 17^th, 2014 at 6:30pm	Print Post
	Thanks Tien, good weekend to you too. Interested to hear how you get on when time permits.


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Tien Doan Newbies Offline Posts: 6 Joined: Jan 15^th, 2014	Re: at breakpoint, how to step into ?? Reply #4 - Jan 26^th, 2014 at 10:30pm	Print Post
	Hi Tim Still can't get the debug to work properly. I set two breakpoints, compiled the program, and uploaded it. The program seemed to run right through the breakpoint. As soon as I push F5, it asked whether or not I want to re-compile and download What now??


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12202 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: at breakpoint, how to step into ?? Reply #5 - Jan 26^th, 2014 at 10:44pm	Print Post
	Hi there, Sorry, I thought you were asking about single line stepping as opposed to break/step. It's not the most obvious setting at the moment.... There is a wiki (needs improvement) on visualmicro.com. If you enter "break" into the search box on visualmicro.com the second article listed is enable break/pause which shows how to switch the debugger between trace and break modes The debugger overview page is a good place to start, but this youtube video explains quite a bit.
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