Hi, I've searched the forums, read the mplab help and read many other posts elsewhere but can't find the answer to this simple question.
When stepping through the mplab stimulus simulator with a pic basic pro program I cannot see my own local variable content.
My thoughts as to why this is are:
- Could be it's supposed to be this way because it's not C. For example from this link I copied this text regarding viewing symbols:
12.3 View Variables
You can see the values of variables when the simulation is halted by putting the mouse cursor over the name of the variable in the source file. A tool tip like display will show the current value of the variable (this is called mouse over).
The values in the watch window do not get updated when the program is running. Only when the program execution halts will they get refreshed. The values are displayed in red when its content changed.
In my case I see none of this behavior. I also see nothing in the Symbols tab of the workspace. The documentation says the tab is populated using a third party tool called ctags which does not list pic basic pro as a language it can process.- I've missed some step that someone here will now enlighten me on.
The program compiles properly with no errors and all the appropriate files like .COD are generated. I can step through the code and see the special registers get their values changed ok.
Thanks in advance.
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