clearing watchlist 3

[Bryan - Gendev]

I am sure I have seen how to do this but I have forgotten ( must note it down!)

How does one clear the debugger watchlist?

Thanks

GenDev

 

[Olaf Doschke]

You can right click on one item/line and "Delete Watch". I don't see an "official" way to delete all, but I know the watch items are stored in foxuser, so you can delete them there. Look for records with Id="WATCHEXPR".

USE SYS(2005) IN 0 AGAIN 
DELETE WHERE Id="WATCHEXPR"

Astonshingly, I just did so and the watchlist wasn't empty. I found another record with Deletion flag, afer SET DELETED OFF and it also had Type="*REFW" instead of the normal "PREFW" for preferences of windows.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

...of course you could also pack after delete.

That makes foxuser records have 4 states: normal, deleted, deleted with confirmation (with * in Type), and really deleted (after the PACK).

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Mike Lewis]

We had this same discussion a few years ago. Several solutions were suggested. In the end, the person who asked the question decided that the easiest way was as follows:

1. Highlight the first item.

2. Press DEL.

3. Repeat until the list is empty.

Mike

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[Dan Freeman]

Just for completeness, there's also:

CLEAR DEBUG

It does other things, but they may or may not be of consequence here.