Debug Sequences

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Debug Sequences

Select the Debugging checkbox (bottom right) to show the Watch and Trace windows (right) on the sequence editor. These will show in all the sequence tabs:

In the sequence above, the Tracecomment command sends any text to the Trace window, the Tracevar command sends the value of the $myipaddress global variable and the watchvar command sets the $count global variable to be shown in the Watched Global Vars window.

Debugging Commands

Traceclear
Clear the trace messages window

Tracelist
Output a list of global variables to the trace messages window, optionally only the Watched variables

Traceon
Turn on tracing

Traceoff
Turn off tracing

Traceseqname
Trace the current sequence name to the trace window

Tracenoncode [off/on]
Show every active line of the sequence (not including code lines) in the trace window

Watchclear
Clear the watched variables

Watchvar $variablename [off / on]
Turn on or off Watching for this variable

LOG message="[string]" file=[c:/filename.txt] timestamp=[y/n] level=[level]
Log a message. File is optional and can be a relative or absolute path to a file, if no file is given the message will log to the delta log file, the directory must already exist. Optionally timestamp, default is to add timestamp. Optionally record a level, level can be NOTE, WARNING, ERROR, FATAL

Page edited [d/m/y]: 08/12/2020