> Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>
>>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 21:10, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>>> Thanks! That does show the string on a character by character basis.
>>>> I'm looking to see the whole string in the "value" field. Strings
>>>> seem to show up ok there if they are not in an array of strings,
>>>> but otherwise I have to read the string vertically, which is more
>>>> difficult. It'd be great if one of the properties was "ASCII
>>>> String" and another was "ASCII Character".
>>>
>>> How do you define your array?
>>>
>>> Since MPLAB behaves correct for an array of chars (which is a
>>> string) then perhaps it wants some perculiar variable type for it to
>>> show "correctly" (i.e. horizontal) in the watch window.
>>
>> I'm defining the array like this:
>>
>> int8_t LogData[10][40]
>>
>> I've previously defined int8_t as char. I'd like to see the 40
>> character lines in the watch window. Instead, I see the individual
>> characters listed one per index.
>
> You can try to define the strings, then an array of strings... doesn't
> make a difference for C, but maybe for MPLAB.
>
>   typedef int8_t LogString[40];
>   LogString LogData[10];
>
> Also, maybe you can watch LogData[0] etc... does this make a difference?
> Or try to use char instead of int8_t. Even though it's typedef'ed, you
> never know what MPLAB does with this...
>
> Gerhard
>

THANKS! Putting LogData[0] in the watch window worked!

Harold

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