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authorPierre Rossi <pierre.rossi@nokia.com>2010-08-19 12:55:39 +0200
committerPierre Rossi <pierre.rossi@nokia.com>2010-08-19 14:47:45 +0200
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Doc: mention how to enable tooltips with watchers in Debug mode.
Rephrased thanks to Leena. Reviewed-by: Leena Miettinen
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program is interrupted. To do so, click the \gui Value column, modify
the value with the inplace editor, and press \key Enter (or \key Return).
+ You can enable tooltips in the main editor displaying this information.
+ For more information, see \l{Showing Tooltips in Debug Mode}.
+
\note The set of watched items is saved in your session.
*/
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\o Uncheck the \gui{Use Debugging Helper} checkbox.
\endlist
+ \section1 Showing Tooltips in Debug Mode
+
+ To inspect the value of variables from the editor, you can turn
+ on tooltips. Tooltips are hidden by default for performance reasons.
+
+ \list 1
+ \o Select \gui Tools > \gui Options... > \gui Debugger > \gui General.
+ \o Select the \gui {Use tooltips in main editor while debugging} check box.
+ \endlist
\section1 Locating Files