Advanced PowerBuilder

Invoking the Debug Painter

The Debug Painter is one of the flexible tools that PowerBuilder has to offer, combining the ability to debug the code attached to any event or function, with the ability to dynamically interrogate the variables the code affects, as the application runs.

When you invoke the Debug Painter, PowerBuilder starts a debugging session for the currently opened application.

When you call the Debug Painter, you must be prepared to supply the following information:

• The type of object with which the buggy code is associated.
• Whether the code is resident in an event or a function.
• The name of the object you are interested in.
• A combination of related control or object with the appropriate event or name of the function.

Select the event or function by expanding the object list in the 'Source Browser' view. Once you find the event/function, then double click on it. PowerBuilder opens that function/event source code in the Source view. The Debug painter is has several views.

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