Hi,

What are you doing to add a watch? The "When hit" breakpoint property is what you need http://www.visualmicro.com/page/User-Guide.aspx?doc=Working-With-Breakpoints-Whe...

You can only jump from break-point to break-point.

It should automatically appear if debug has started.

Does the tool bar say "Release" or "Debug"

What appears in the output window after clicking Debug>Start?

Have you set a breakpoint? If so what expressions have you added to watch?

More info will help me understand what you have done and what you do or do not know.

Thanks for the info

1) Please confirm what you have entered into the "when hit" message?

2) Show screen shot of your ide when debug is active. (The expressions window might be minimized or on a tab, therefore hidden?)

Thanks

The problem is the Serial tool window and the expressions tool windows are hidden on tabs in the code editor.

Drag then both away from the editor with the mouse. Hold the CTRL key while you do that which will prevent them from trying to re-dock. 

You can keep them floated or you can doc them in a area of the ide where they are visible during debug.

Great thanks so we see the expression window in the very top right of the image.

I asked earlier what you have in your "When Hit" message? Please post the text from the "When Hit" message below

Thank you

Thanks for the info. Maybe there is some misunderstanding.

You have the "expressions watch" tool as the top right window.   

It needs to be made taller so that you can see the expressions that are being watched and their values

You have set two different expressions to be watched.

1. {(currentMillis - previousMillis)}
2. {(currentMillis-tManualValveOpen)}

So they expressions window should show the values of two expressions. 

In the "Expression Watch" tool of your image we can see the first expression is being watched and it has a value of 0. This matches the "Micro Debug Trace" message which also shows a value of 0

If you make the expressions tool taller (give it more height) you will see the value of the 2nd expressions

Does this make sense?

Oh

Are you are saying that you want to click "watch" and "quick watch" to easily add variables or expressions to the "when hit" message?

or something else?

The Visual Micro expressions watch is the only watch window.

If you close up all your {} variables in the When Hit and do not add any text or space then the when hit message is not displayed, only the watched expressions and basic trace will be visible.

If the when hit is in the above format then your text messages from other brakpoints will be shown more clearly in the Message window.

Vs is not really running a debug session, it doesn't know about serial debuggers, so we can't use its standard debug windows (yet)

I hope this gives some help. 

ps: We might have an updated debugger coming soon that allows watch expressions to be added "live", without "when hit" or recompile.

pps: Don't forget that it's an alternative to serial debug with the ability to change values of named {variables=?}. It's not as good as hardware debug but it's all most Arduino's has got and better than hacking code with serial messages.