Animate settings are settings that apply to the current project, if you have a project open, and that define how animation is going to take place. You can also change the Animate settings when you do not have a project open, in which case they apply to any animation activities you undertake outside of the project environment. Any values you set while no project is open are overwritten when you open a project by the values set for that project.
Some of the Animate settings are also available from the Start Animating > Options dialog box. Any changes you make in the Options dialog box are temporary only; they do not affect the project settings.
Click Enable mixed-language debugging only if you have another, non-COBOL, debugger that you want to use in conjunction with Net Express to debug sections of your application that are not written in COBOL.
You cannot debug COBOL generated code, system executable code, or dynamic link libraries with this button selected; however, you can debug COBOL intermediate code.
Type the path and base name (the filename without its extension) of the program in which you want debugging to start in the Start animating at entry field. You can use a pseudo-variable for the path to avoid having to change it when you change build types: %TARGETDIR\myprog
Type any command-line parameters you want to pass to the program in the Command line parameters entry field. Parameters that you enter here are the default parameters that are passed to your program whenever it is run or animated from the Development Environment. You can over-ride these parameters for a single invocation by entering different parameters in the entry field on the Start Animating Options dialog box.
To animate a program from a command line
Select Use multi-threaded run-time if your application is multi-threaded.
Select Enable multi-process animation if you want to debug COBOL processes that are launched from your application. A separate instance of Net Express is opened for each COBOL process launched by your application.
Select Wait for animatable attachment if you want to debug a CGI program or a dynamic link library. The debugger waits for the program to start in a separate process before attempting to attach to it.
Select Attach to running process if you want to start animating a COBOL application that is already running.
Select any class libraries whose sources you want to step into while debugging.
If you want to debug a program that resides on a different computer to that on which Net Express is currently running, select Execute remotely and type the remote machine name, the remote working directory, and the location of debug information files (.idy) files held locally.
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