place the TRACE command just outside the loop. use a method call with a boolean process variable which you can change to allow/stop the trace action
> On Oct 6, 2021, at 4:43 PM, Keith Goebel via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Randy, hi there. > Yes, after breakpoints fail to work, a Trace command does work. But that is a > problem when you only want to stop and trace the first iteration of a loop. > Then you have to restart 4D. > I am very surprised the problem is unfixed in v18 though… > Cheers, Keith > >> On 7/10/2021, at 9:08 am, Randy Kaempen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Keith, >> >>> On Oct 6, 2021, at 3:03 PM, Keith Goebel via 4D_Tech <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Also, v17 had a severely bad habit of ignoring breakpoints after a short >>> time tracing code during development. I never did figure out what triggered >>> it (modifying code in a method currently being traced?). >>> The only solution to get breakpoints working again was to restart 4D. >> >> >> I have seen this a lot and it continues in v18. Oddly, I never saw it in >> the v17 R releases. I think it is a memory issue. I find that the more >> forms and methods I have open, the sooner it happens. As you said, the only >> solution is to restart 4D. >> >> It was driving me nuts for a while, because I wouldn’t see a trace where it >> _had_ to happen. I found that if I put in a TRACE command, that still >> showed up. It was just the bullets that failed. That’s how I can tell it’s >> happening. >> >> >> Randy Kaempen >> Intellex Corporation > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > New Forum: https://discuss.4D.com > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) New Forum: https://discuss.4D.com Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************

