Blank debug window opening

[Mark Bannister]

I used to know this, but anytime I open a form or library to edit a blank debug window opens.   There is a simple way to get rid of it...if only I could remember.

Anybody?

[Steven Green]

sorry, that one does not ring a bell

[Jure Zorko]

Try deleting pdx*.cfg files somewhere on c: drive.

[Kevin Zawicki]

Delete the user you are under files:
PDX_EN_FULL_bars.cfg
PDX_EN_FULL_sbar.cfg

(I usually delete them under all users)

They can be in “hidden” folders.

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Corel\Paradox100\ConfigDir

They can be elsewhere, but the user ones are often the problem.

Delete all .lck files.

Open the library in design and verify it no breakpoints. Verify Compile with warnings and Compile with debug are unchecked.

Save.
Reboot.
Test.

Is it just one library?
If so, deliver that library and remove lsl, see if runs normally delivered.

Make a new empty library, does it do that to it?


Next option is to make new library and move procs and methods a few at a time and test.
If it is just that library.
 

[Mark Bannister]

It's something really easy in the UI that you have to do.  It basically is stuck in debug mode for all opal objects.    Only happens when you open in design.  

Somehow you have to tell the UI debugging is complete, but I don't remember how.

[Mark Bannister]

It's anything with opal code but only when you open it in design mode.  It does not harm but is annoying.

[Mark Bannister]

OK, found it.  This is not what I remember but, it's in Developer Preferences (settings).

Uncheck "Open in Design" under "Debug environment".  Somehow it gets turned on.

Something I didn't know, you can save the "debug environment" which is the debugger, tracer, call stack, etc. and they will all open when you open the debugger.  Saving is a menu choice in the debugger.

On Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 7:42:24 AM UTC-5 Steven Green wrote:

[Kevin Zawicki]

Right, I was about to suggest that.

The odd thing is that when that is checked, forms do not open in design by default?

Only libraries.

Maybe because the library is really opened “in design mode” as it has no GUI, and all this does is open a debug window?