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[Taco Bell]

I honestly don't rely on the debugger too much.  Mainly use MessageBoxes and log statements to deduce the problem.

However, when I do end up having to debug, something I've always wondered is how to easily see the value of a constant--both the pre-defined ones (i.e. LESS_THAN) and user-defined ones.

If I simply add them to watch list as is it says "Error: symbol '<constant>' not found".

Let me know if you can and thanks in advance.

[Xitch13]

I'm sure you've thought of this extremely ugly way of solving that problem, but if it helps...
Define a regular variable and set its value to your constant.
ie.  nValueOfLESS_THAN = LESS_THAN
         Then watch nValueOfLESS_THAN in the debugger.

Yech, it hurt me to even type that response.  Unfortunately, I usually employ the 'ol message box debugger since I have 2 other systems to test on, so I don't have much expertise in using the debugger.

Hope this helped and didn't lower everyone's opinion of me

[Taco Bell]

Yeah, I too have two other systems to test on, so that's also why I haven't used the debugger much.

Yeah, I nee dent do all that work.  Nowadays, I just do a search in my code or the help to look up the the declaration, but would like to really see it at runtime.