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The alternative to stepping and tracing, which examine your code line-by-line, is to debug at full speed. This lets you skip areas that you know are bug-free and concentrate on suspected problem areas.

If you set breakpoints in your program, you can debug at full speed and execute to the first breakpoint. You can then decide whether to continue running the program from the breakpoint or to proceed by stepping over or into subroutines.

To debug at full speed, either

Click the Run toolbar button

Choose Run|Run from the Debugger menu, or

Press F9

Running to cursor position

You can also run at full speed until execution reaches the current cursor position in the Source window. To try this approach, choose Run|Run To Cursor.

Stopping program execution

In addition to using breakpoints and stepping techniques, you can halt execution of a running program any time by

Clicking the Stop button on the toolbar

Choosing Run|Stop from the Debugger menu