Variable Format Changed In Open Workspace

Question

A bunch of years ago I complained to NI that while you're debugging and you set a variable format to what you want to see, CVI changes that format back to what it wants to show whenever you stop running.  I **FINALLY** got NI to agree that this was a tremendous debugging headache, and the FINALLY fixed it.  But somewhere along the way to CVI 2013, NI broke this again.
For example, I do a lot of work on arrays of data.  The data is not ASCII but hex data that can be interpretted only if you know what to look for (as I do).  But that data makes no sense at all if you look at it in decimal.  So every time I run, I have to go back to my watch window and select every hex variable I want to look at (arrays, indexes, etc.) and change the format to what I want to see.
NI, why did you break this, and can you fix it again?
Thanks,
Dave

Answer 1

Hi Basel,
It appears this happens not only when I stop then restart debugging, but also while stepping.
Here's what I did:
Create a global array, such as:
array[] = {0xaa, 0xbb, 0xcc, 0xdd, 0xee};
Then in my source code, I had a for loop such as:
for(i = 0; i < 5; i++)
  // do stuff here not related to array[]
I set a breakpoint on the for loop.  Ran in debug mode to the breakpoint.  Changed the format of array[] from decimal to hex, then stepped a couple of times and CVI changed the format from hex back to decimal.
That is very irritating.
Thanks,
Dave