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Watch Window (Visual FoxPro)

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Makes it possible for you to display expressions and their current values, and set breakpoints on an expression. This window is activated when you choose Watch from the Window Menu, Debugger Window. Visual FoxPro enables IntelliSense in the Watch window but limits support to only List Members.

In Visual FoxPro 9.0, the Find and Find Again menu items are available to search for items in the Name column of the Watch window.

  • Watch
    The value or expression you want to examine. Type expressions here to add them to the grid of active watch expressions below.

  • Name
    Displays the names of the current watch expressions.

  • Value
    Displays the values of the current watch expressions.

  • Type
    Displays characters that represent the data types of the current watch expressions.

You can select expressions, delete them, or add breakpoints to them.

To create a new watch expression

  • Select text in any Visual FoxPro window and drag it to the Watch window.

To edit a watch expression

  • Double-click the watch expression.

See Also

Reference

Debugger Window

Debugger Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus

Call Stack Window (Visual FoxPro)

Other Resources

Windows (Visual FoxPro)