CrossWorks for ARM User Guide

•Right click the tool bar area to display the View menu.•From the popup menu, click Other Windows then Watch n.Adding or changing items to watchYou can add a new expression to be watched by clicking and typing into the last entryin the watch window. You can change the expression that is watched by clicking theexpression entry and editing its contents.Changing display formatWhen you select a variable in the main part of the display, the display format buttonhighlighted on the Watch window tool bar changes to show the item’s display format.To change the display format of a local variable, do one of the following:•Right click the item to change.•From the popup menu, select the format to display the item in.—or—•Click the item to change.•On the Watch window tool bar, select the format to display the item in.The selected display format will then be used for all subsequent displays and will berecorded when the debug session stops.For C programs the interpretation of pointer types can be changed by right clicking andselecting from the popup menu. A pointer can be interpreted as:•a null terminated ASCII string.•an array.•an integer.•dereferenced.Modifying watched valuesTo modify the value of a local variable, do one of the following:•Click the value of the local variable to modify.•Enter the new value for the local variable. Prefix hexadecimal numbers with ‘0x’,binary numbers with ‘0b’, and octal numbers with ‘0’.—or—•Right click the value of the local variable to modify.•From the popup menu, select one of the operations to modify the variable’s value124 Chapter 12 CrossStudio Windows