Please help me on Debugging the Form

Question

Hi All,.
Can anyone please give the steps for Debugging the Form:
-Actually i am trying to know what is happening when we are working with the Forms(Front End) and
-what are the triggers firing in the backend
- What are the Program Units are calling
-What is complete flow,..
-How the data get populated on to the screen from backend
Please give the complete steps, coz i am new to the Forms & Resports.
Please help me on this with complete steps & Documentation.
Thanks,
grac

Answer 1

hi
i hope it will help u too.
here is the instructions.
-Click on Button “Debug” on toolbar of forms, (icon like a “bug”), will active debug_mode;
2-Execute the forms (Run);
3-The Forms will show a windows “Forms Debugger” with 3 panels: -The first is “SOURCE PANE”, showing your source code of procedure or trigger that is running; - The second, is “Navigator Pane”, shows a tree of objects to debug; - The third is “INTERPRETER PANE”, where you do pl/sql code to run; Go to second frame(Navigator Pane) and expand node “+MODULE”, select your forms module(click on it);
4-Open the tree, navigate until your trigger that you want to debug (or to debug ALL CODE select menu “DEBUG” -> “Trigger” and choose Location=”Every Statement”, and write “raise debug.break;” on field trigger_boddy)
5-If you want to debug a specific trigger of a text_item, go to block, select the text_item, then select the trigger, the source code will show in “source pane”;
6-Go to menu “DEBUG” -> “TRIGGER” and write “raise debug.break;” on field trigger_boddy (or do a double click over a line code that can be debuged); When the forms run, and run this trigger, the run mode will be “suspend” and forms return to this page of “DEBUG”, where you can view values of any variable, values of block_itens, values of SYSTEM variables and go to a “step by step” running your code line to line, and view changes on variables;
7-In this step, you setup the debugger, to run now, click on red “X” to close debugger, the forms will be run;
8-You go run until the code marked to break; The cursor will stop on first line that is running (Source pane) with a signal => on the line;
9-Now you can run line by line; entire block or return to normal run (see buttons enables);
When debugging, explore the Navigator, and see anothers variables values like :system.current_record; :system.record_status; :sytem.message_level; Global variableshttp://www.orafaq.com/forum/t/140073/0/
sarah