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# Debugger Preferences

This category contains preferences that are specific to the EiffelStudio Debugger and the debugger tool. These preferences are:

Label in the preferences window | Complete Description
Critical stack depth | Stack overflow detection: depth of stack at which execution will pause and ask whether it is ok to continue (only works in classic Eiffel).
Debug output evaluation | Display DEBUG_OUTPUT.debug_output for objects whose base class inherits from DEBUG_OUTPUT.
Default displayed string size | Default number of displayed characters of a STRING (increasing this value might slow down debugging).
Default expanded view size | Default number of displayed characters in the expanded view (increasing this value might slow down debugging).
Default maximum stack depth | Default number of call stack elements shown in Call Stack tool (-1 to show all of them).
Delay before cleaning objects grid | Delay in milliseconds before cleaning the Objects tool view.
Dotnet debugger | Which .NET debugger to launch.
Expanded display background color | Background color for expanded display view (default is white, change it to better see white spaces in displayed text).
Generating type evaluation | Display the base type of an object if enabled, otherwise just the base class (disabling it might speed up debugging).
Interrupt every n instructions | Number of instructions that will be executed before interrupting the execution.
Max evaluation duration | Number of seconds to wait before cancelling an evaluation.