RSView32 VBA Help

[200mV]

Hello all,

New to the forums here and glad to find this oasis of RSView/FactoryTalk info!

I have a basic VB question I hope can be answered easily...

What I am trying to accomplish is dimming out an object and setting it to the active graphic for ONLY viewing it in the watch window on the VBA side of things...

This version of VBA seems different than I am used to....

First it seems I can not "step" through my code and debug using the watch window which appears to make things fairly difficult...

Why can't I step through the code?

Is there a special sequence of events to make this possible?

It appears when I step into the subroutine, the code is just fired off and completely runs the entire sub?

Secondly, it also appears the compiler ignores my break points?

Why is this?

My main goal is attempting to create some script that loops through the open graphics' objects to ONLY watch the looped objects in the watch window...(for debugging tags so I don't have to manually go through each object)

If the above two issues are not a possibility, how can I accomplish this?

Thanks to anyone who responds!

 

[xC0MMAND0x]

First off, are you running RSView32 or FactoryTalkView SE?

Here is VBA Info:
Best Practices
https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/35147

All you need to know about VBA
https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/459824

Error Handling Techniques
https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/51771

(love the title of this one)
How to decide if VBA code requires further reviewing by a programmer, when you are not a VBA programmer yourself
https://rockwellautomation.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/64624

Here is VBA Model in Color:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/upfyn1zwsa0s7x5/Rockwell VBA Model.pdf?dl=0

Here is VBA Model in B&W:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2uibltd563j1txs/Rockwell VBA Model BW.pdf?dl=0

 

[200mV]

We are using RSView32...

I think we found what we need with "Peek", but I thought I would get fancy and make a "find" loop for my co-worker...

Why doesn't a break point halt the vb thread?

Why can't I truly step through the code?

It seems like the compiler wants to run the code completely and I can't debug it...

Thanks for the reply!

 

[xC0MMAND0x]

It's fairly limited in what you can do - not like a full VBA envrionment.

Check out page 82 of this guide:

http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/gr/vw32-gr001_-en-e.pdf

 

[200mV]

A+ reply...

Thank you very much, appreciate it!