Select File to Journal to dialog

Use this dialog to specify details of a file to use for recording journal messages. It is displayed when you select Logs and Journalimage\optarrow.gifJournal File… from the Tools menu of the Code window.

The dialog is basically a File Open dialog with some additional fields that help you to locate the folder where you want to create the file, or an existing journal file that you want to use again.

Set Directory

Click on image\dropdown.gif to see a list of directories that you have accessed recently. You can select a directory from the list, and it is automatically entered in Look in. Click Favorites… to open the Favorites dialog, and display a list of directories that you have set as favorites, from which you can select a directory.

Set File

Click on image\dropdown.gif to see a list of files that you have accessed recently. You can select a file from the list, and it is automatically entered in File name. Click Favorites… to open the Favorites dialog, and display a list of files that you have set as favorites, from which you can select a file.

Click Save when you have specified the location and name of the journal file that you want to create or open. If you choose an existing journal file, you are asked whether you want to append to it, or overwrite it. The dialog is closed and the journal file is opened. All commands, debugger output, and messages are recorded in the journal file, and JOUR appears in the task bar at the foot of the Code window to indicate that a journal file is open.

Click Cancel to close the dialog without opening a journal file.