Every time I start a debug session, I get this 'Expressions on Com XX' window popping up next to the serial output window, and I have to kill it or hide it.  The best I have been able to do is hide it by docking it in the same space as the Output and Error List windows, and then selecting the 'Output' window (which hides the unwanted 'Expressions On Com XX' window).  However, even then the 'Expressions' window pops to the front at some point in the load/debug process and I have to hide it again.

Is there any way to disable this window permanantly?

TIA,

Frank

Sure would be nice to have an option to completely disable this window, but maybe the 'in its own strip and select AutoHide' option will work well enough - I'll give it a try.

I haven't found the debugger to be of much use.  By the time I get all the syntax stuff set up to view expression values, etc, I can  do just as well using print statements.  Moreover, the print statements (commented out and surrounded by //DEBUG comments) serve as documentation for the next time I have trouble with the code.  For instance, here's a typical debug printout statement

	////DEBUG!!
	//mySerial.printf("GetTotalAmps(): Areading, ITotVolts, ITotAmps = %d, %3.2f, %3.2f\n",
	//	ITotAnalogReading, ITotVolts, ITotAmps);
	////DEBUG!!
 

If for some reason the 'total current' 1NA169 current sensor on my robot is giving me trouble, I can simply uncomment this section to see all the associated variables on the serial monitor, and I don't have to think too much because its all there from the last time.

A few months ago I made a real run at using the debugger. In addition to the above problem of getting all the expression syntax worked out, I found it difficult to follow the expression layout in the output window.  Sometimes I got a table (nice) and sometimes I didn't (not nice!), and couldn't figure out why.

Maybe I'm just too lazy .

Frank