Forms degugger command line params/runform variable

Good afternoon all, i hope you are doing fine.
I am looking for a way to 'read' the flag and/or variable that will tell me if the form beeing run, is beeing run in debug mode.
Just like you see when running degugger, in the command line parametres node/runform ...DEGUG = YES...I am looking for a way to get this reading without running debug...Is there a built_in like...
tool_env.getvar ('USER', l_var_char)...that exist to find out if the form beeing run, is beeing run in debug mode.
Thank you for your time and effort,
Michel turcot

You have a global variable, or a package variable that you hardcode, for example:
:GLOBAL.DEBUGGING := 'FALSE';
You set this off, but default. When you want to debug, you have to remember to set it to something else, like TRUE.
Then, in whichever trigger you want, you can reference it:
if :GLOBAL.DEBUGGING = 'TRUE' then
-- do debugging stuff.
end if;
It's a bit tedious, because you have to remember to change the code when you want to debug or not.
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Robin Zimmermann
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