This window allows you to open a secondary watch window where the contents of a variable can be displayed permanently. The debugger will evaluate the contents of the field at each stop.
A box opens asking you which variable you want to watch. Enter the name of a watch and press return.
To erase a variable from the watch list, press the ‘delete’ key. To add a variable, press the ‘insert’ key. Remember to first click in the watch window so that it receives the focus. As of this release, only simple types are supported, i.e., if you have a structure with an integer field, type struct->field into the watch window input.
The watch window looks like many other windows in the debugger:
Each
field of the ‘msg’ structure is displayed.
Each time the debugger stops, it will update this window with the current values. This allows you to follow the evolution of the values during program execution.