[Gambas-user] Debugging Gambas

[KKing]

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I don't recall exactly what your project is. But, with "Use terminal 
emulator" and "Redirect standard error output" enabled, Print displays 
in the terminal and Debug displays in the IDE console. With redirection 
disabled, both display in the terminal.
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With the issue I have of seeming to freeze, it doesn't matter which way 
I have that setting I don't get any messages appearing in either the 
terminal (which is being used for the ncurses) or in the IDE console.

I've tried the same solution on a much more powerful unit with 
significantly more RAM and Gambas 3.9.1 and it behaves the same.

When I say freeze, I mean that F8 does not move to next line. As 
mentioned if I choose Pause it crashes. What I've now noticed is that 
Stop (Alt+Pause) works as normal.

I added a TraceLog sub to write to a log file, the code now calls that 
repeatedly no problem until I get the "freezing" issue which now freezes 
in that routine where it tries to open the log file (I'm opening and 
closing it each time it goes into the sub). I've managed to deduce the 
freeze comes in code that has been called repeatedly a number of time 
after a particular separate routine is called once and returns and 
carries on to the previous called upto a point, though that point seems 
to vary (possibly due to my adding of further tracelog calls). Now this 
separate routine also ha file calls but essentially is working with 
completely separate files and variables than the routine the freeze 
occurs in.

Is there any sort of File Handle limitations and what is the correct way 
to free/release them? As example this is how I am currently working with 
some of the files.
Public Sub TraceLog(strMessage As String)
   Dim hFile_TraceLog As File
   Dim strDateAndTime As String
   hFile_TraceLog = Open "/home/test1/trace.log" For Append
   strDateAndTime = Now
   Print #hFile_TraceLog, strDateAndTime & " " & strMessage

   Close #hFile_TraceLog

End

K.