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Is there a way to activate Variable Watcher without being in Debug Mode?

Ralph,
I dont know of any way to watch the variable watcher outside of debug mode. You could put into your script some code that saves the varibles to a field to see what is going on.

TRev, an alternative script editor for Rev ($50, very good http://reveditor.com/ ), gives you the ability to take snapshots of the state of your varibles at varying point in your code.

But if you just want to know the state of the variables for a specific problem I would go for the field approach.
If you want help for this just describe what exactly you want to do without going into debug mode (what is wrong with that anyways?)

regards
Bernd

Thank You for the suggestions and i'll check them out.

Actually I've converted an old HyperCard stack that had a Variable Watcher capability that I wanted to retain. I was able to watch a list of variable values as I am running an application. I need not watch all the variable values but it could be selected variables and/or globals.

I was thinking one approach might be using a substack but it would have to remain open as I ran the main application? But updating it and closing it??

I am hoping someone on this Forum may have experienced the same need and can help.

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