I wanna see the status of all my variables without them being global!! Is this still possible?

In the new 3.50, it is possible to see the local variables, too. They're in a different window, though.

- Xander

Yeah, but only if you pause code execution. Which is bad for me.

You could use some sort of real time data plotter with XBees

If only someone would help you out, and get you a set of XBees

By the way, How's the XBee project coming?

Somewhat. I'm still trying to get through C#, and then I've gotta get a handle on Java to convert the code. This, combined with life, school, my other robots and Civ make for slow progress on everything. But I haven't stopped working on it! I'll get there. In time.

Just saying, this is a good application, and I know someone who has working code

The first time I did the line follower I used a non real-time version to log data, and it helped a lot in tuning the PID. I plan on using the latest (real-time) version again with the light sensor array once I get a IMU I can depend on working (real soon now™).

In ROBOTC 3.50 and above, there is a new debugger window called "Local Variables". There are two windows now for variables:

1. Global Variables - Displays all variables declared outside of any procedure or task.
2. Local Variables - Displays all variable in the currently selected function when the debugger has the program suspended.

The reason why the Local Variables is not able to display the variables during execution is that for each function calls the variables are released from the stack and ROBOTC can't keep track of which variables are associated to the stack memory addresses between function calls. This is similar to most modern IDE's (such as Visual Studio) that cannot display variables unless the program is currently suspended via a breakpoint or Step command which only show the variables in the current procedure or function. Global variables do not have this issue as they are assigned a fixed memory address at compile time.

If you need a "live update" of local values, I would recommend looking at using the "WriteDebugStream" commands and watching the Debug Stream debugger window which will give you a "printf" style printing capability to a terminal like window. To learn more, take a look at http://www.robotc.net/wiki/Debug_Stream