How to invoke Debug from Oracle Menu running on WEB?

Question

ENVIRONMENT:
Oracle Forms 10g resides on Linux server.
Forms are called from the Oracle Menu.
Runs on company-wide WEB intra-net using Internet Explorer version 6.
User workstations are PC running Windows XP version 5.1.
PROJECT:
Create Oracle Menu option named: DEBUG.
After clicking on DEBUG, control returns to the Menu.
Any Form subsequently selected from the Menu will run in debug mode.
So every trigger firing in the Form will cause a message displayed on screen.
This will continue to happen whenever a Form is selected.
This continues until DEBUG is selected again...to toggle off.
QUESTION:
Is this possible?
If yes, how to do?

Answer 1

Possible: maybe.
How to do: this bean lets you get the values of the forms applet parameters and also set them. Perhaps debug_messages is settable in this way.
I've never found the debug_messages option to be very useful - it's usually fairly easy to work out which triggers are running and if there's an error then forms tells you which trigger it ocurred in. If the above (or anything else) doesn't work then you could use something like the package I posted Re: Zdebug -- Download a Forms debugging message tool, but it would mean having to code your own debug messages into the forms. Adding a new procedure to turn debugging on or off, or even to use a message level like forms has, would be quite simple.
eg,
-- new package variable:
debug_on BOOLEAN := TRUE;
PROCEDURE toggle_debug IS
BEGIN
  debug_on := NOT debug_on;
END;
-- write_log becomes:
PROCEDURE write_log(
  p_text IN VARCHAR2,
  p_indent PLS_INTEGER DEFAULT 0) IS
BEGIN
  IF debug_on THEN
    write_log_internal(p_text, p_indent, 'N');
  END IF;
END write_log;
etc