Hi,

In Visual Studio 2013, when I upload a sketch in Debug mode (i.e. with F5), I get a serial monitor window and an 'Expressions' (watch) window.  The watch window always shows up on top of the serial monitor window, so I always have to move or close it.  Since I don't have any watch expressions enabled, I would prefer not to have this window come up at all.  I have looked through the docs and found that I can see the 'Watch Expressions' menu item under 'Other Windows' in the serial monitor Debug menu, but I can't seem to check or uncheck this item.  I can check and uncheck the other item here (the AGuage visualization example). When this item is checked, it is visible.  When unchecked, it is hidden.  However, I can't check or uncheck the 'Watch Expressions' item, so I can't disable the darned thing.

What am I missing here?

TIA,

Frank

Tim,

Thanks for the quick response.  Your post did not address my problem directly, but the hint about docking the serial window gave me a clue that lead to a solution.

My problem Is that I want the serial monitor, but don't want the watch window laying on top of it (floating window).  The serial monitor debug options menu shows the watch window as an item under 'other windows', but does't allow the user to enable or disable this window (as it does with 'AGauge').  I tried docking the watch window with the serial monitor window; this worked, but the watch window always started on top of the serial monitor - so that didn't help.  Then I tried docking it to the main code window at the bottom, and this did the trick!  Now when I bring the system up in debug mode, the watch window is hidden at the bottom of the main code window (along with 'Output', 'Call Hierarchy', etc), and the serial monitor comes up by itself - YAY! 

Frank