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No "Enable Break/Pause" selection in Project Properties
Feb 14th, 2015 at 10:44am
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This is the first thing I have found in my search for the reason my breakpoints don't work. 

System: Intel Core i3-2130 @ 3.4 GHz
            RAM 6 GB
            64-bit OS, x64 based processor
            Windows 8.1
            Atmel Studio 6 (Version 6.2.1502 - Service Pack 1)

Thanks for any assistance and let me know if more system info would be helpful in the future.

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Re: No "Enable Break/Pause" selection in Project Properties
Reply #1 - Feb 14th, 2015 at 1:46pm
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Hi,

They are enabled by default. maybe there is some older documentation that needs to be removed that suggests you need to enable them.

Is the tool bar set to Debug or Release configuration?

Thanks
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Reply #2 - Feb 14th, 2015 at 5:15pm
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Thanks for the quick response.

Debug was selected.

There is some confusion about the documentation, i.e.

From the online doc's:
"Press the Blue tool bar arrow or SHIFT+F5 for compile and upload (Debug>Start without debugging)
Press the Green tool bar arrow or F5 to compile, upload and debug"

My toolbar shows:
Blue arrow = "Start Without Debugging (Ctrl+Alt+F5)"
In case I'm color blind, this arrow is the second one to the left of the Debug drop down box.

Green arrow = "Start Debugging (F5)"
This arrow is directly above the Serial Monitor icon. I'm using the default toolbar arrangement.

Can you tell me if this might be the problem. Right now, I'm not sure what I'm doing when I use these arrows/keys.

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Re: No "Enable Break/Pause" selection in Project Properties
Reply #3 - Feb 14th, 2015 at 6:10pm
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Hi

Sorry for the confusing which is due to the differences between Atmel Studio and Visual Studio.

If your breakpoints are to be used then you would need to have the "Debug" configuration selected as you have. Also you would need to use one of the debug start commands such as GreenArrow, Debug>Start, Step into etc.

If the debug compile happens this is shown in the compiler output. First you will see a release compile and then a 2nd compile will say it is making a debug compile.

Please post the output you are seeing after an upload attempt.

Can you also confirm that you have started a trial or purchased for the debugger? What is the License Status that is displayed in "tools>options>visual micro>application features>license status"

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Reply #4 - Feb 15th, 2015 at 12:14am
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Using F5:

Compiling 'Sketch1' for 'Arduino Nano w/ ATmega328'
Binary sketch size: 3,106 bytes (used 10% of a 30,720 byte maximum) (0.14 secs)
Compiling debug version of 'Sketch1' for 'Arduino Nano w/ ATmega328'
Binary sketch size: 4,390 bytes (used 14% of a 30,720 byte maximum) (0.36 secs)
Uploading to I/O board using 'COM3'
Done uploading

Now the breakpoint is working sometimes. Is the breakpoint sensitive to where it is placed in the code?

License Status       REGISTERED

Thanks for all the help.

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Reply #5 - Feb 15th, 2015 at 2:31pm
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The docs need to be a bit clearer

1)
If you add a text message to a breakpoint "when hit" then it will be a trace point but will not halt the code when hit. You have to untick the "Continue execution" checkbox on the "breakpoint when hit" window to cause code to halt. This means that breakpoints with text messages are "trace points" by default.

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Breakpoints are inserted into the temp compiler code at the end of a code line, See The Exact Location of a Breakpoint in this article:-

http://www.visualmicro.com/page/User-Guide.aspx?doc=Debugging.html

An important point to keep in mind is what happens when you please breakpoints on line that start with "if"

In this case the breakpoint will execute inside the "if". Braces will be added if there are none.

So it's best to think of a breakpoint as adding your own serial.print statement to the code. Sometimes it will be better to place a breakpoint before the line that starts with an "if". 

A good rule is to place breakpoints on simple (non conditional) code or empty lines.
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Reply #6 - Feb 16th, 2015 at 11:18am
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Hi again...

I have moved my breakpoint several times between a line of code and an empty line. The "Continue execution" box is unchecked. The breakpoint consistently works on a line of code and does not on an empty line. It's not a problem for me. I'm just letting you know my experience with breakpoints.

Once again, thanks for the quick response.
  
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Reply #7 - Feb 20th, 2015 at 3:56pm
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moved to a new thread http://www.visualmicro.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1424447522/0#0
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