Commenting On/Out Lines of Code

[Marcus]

I'm sure this is covered somewhere but I can't seem to find it. When writing or editing an ISY program, I'd like to be able to (1) add a comment to a specific line or section of active code and/or (2) temporarily comment out a specific line or section of code. The only thing I seem to be able to accomplish is adding a comment to the very end of the program https://100001.onl/ https://1921681254.mx/.

Edited December 22, 2020 by Marcus

[MrBill]

There is no functionality to comment out or stop a line of code from executing.  Comments can be Moved Up just like a line of code.

I don't have the need as much anymore due to increased comfort level, but one thing I did in the early days when I wanted to try something was make a copy of the program and disable the original then make changes to the copy for testing.

[larryllix]

16 minutes ago, MrBill said:

There is no functionality to comment out or stop a line of code from executing.  Comments can be Moved Up just like a line of code.

I don't have the need as much anymore due to increased comfort level, but one thing I did in the early days when I wanted to try something was make a copy of the program and disable the original then make changes to the copy for testing.

I do the same, but one caveat is, any program relating to, or calling the program being tested, will not be linked properly during the testing phase.

Commenting out a line is one of the most basic troubleshooting techniques in other languages.

Edited December 18, 2020 by larryllix

[larryllix]

8 hours ago, Marcus said:

I'm sure this is covered somewhere but I can't seem to find it. When writing or editing an ISY program, I'd like to be able to (1) add a comment to a specific line or section of active code and/or (2) temporarily comment out a specific line or section of code. The only thing I seem to be able to accomplish is adding a comment to the very end of the program.

 

 

Try the action section of the programming selections. Comments were added between lines in the If, Then, and Else section a few versions ago. They can be found under odd places though and consume too much vertical space, making the code less readable, IMHO.

Edited December 18, 2020 by larryllix