[Gambas-user] Using DEBUG to print to console in "compiled" applications

[RICHARD WALKER]

I have an application which interacts with two or three other
non-gambas applications and daemons and I am not absolutely certain
these interactions are completely robust.

I had littered the code with PRINT statements to get console output at
various critical points of the application. Soon it got too much and I
thought I would replace the PRINT with DEBUG (getting location
information in the output) and giving me a way to turn these messages
on or off, leaving the reduced number of PRINT statements to appear in
a "cleaner" console output.

So far so good. The DEBUG statements have proved invaluable in helping
me to get the code into a working state, but they do not appear at all
when I run the compiled application in a console. I never did find the
way, which I thought must exist, to turn these messages on and off.

The manual suggests it is possible to see DEBUG output in the compiled
app's console but is completely silent on how this might be achieved.

Any suggestions?

Richard