# DebugView++ with Message View

**URL:** <https://clarionhub.com/t/debugview-with-message-view/8551>\
**Category:** uncategorized\
**Tags:** debugging\
**Created:** [August 30, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/debugview-with-message-view/8551 "2025-08-30T19:15:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![CarlosGtrz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/carlosgtrz/32/5870_2.png) [@CarlosGtrz](https://clarionhub.com/u/CarlosGtrz)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/debugview-with-message-view/8551/1 "2025-08-30T19:15:55Z")

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Inspired by @John_Hickey’s [Clarion Live presentation](https://www.youtube.com/live/YZn7VxVHT-o?t=804), I created a simpler [fork of DebugView++](https://github.com/CarlosGtrz/DebugViewPPV) that adds a **View Message** option for viewing full message text in separate windows, with some formatting options:

![DebugView++ View Message](https://github.com/CarlosGtrz/DebugViewPPV/raw/message_view/art/debugviewppvdemo.gif)

No changes to the main window or the core functionality were made, just the new options in the context menu and a few methods to link everything, so there should not be any compatibility problems when switching between the original and this fork.

The source code is available at [GitHub](https://github.com/CarlosGtrz/DebugViewPPV). You can download the executable from [Releases](https://github.com/CarlosGtrz/DebugViewPPV/releases).

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**Author:** ![RchdR](https://clarionhub.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@RchdR](https://clarionhub.com/u/RchdR)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/debugview-with-message-view/8551/2 "2025-08-31T07:21:39Z")

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Nice. I’ll make a suggestion, being able to double click on the line and it opens the hilighted line in its own window, would be nice feature to speed things up a bit.

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**Author:** ![CarlosGtrz](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/carlosgtrz/32/5870_2.png) [@CarlosGtrz](https://clarionhub.com/u/CarlosGtrz)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/debugview-with-message-view/8551/3 "2025-08-31T18:04:35Z")

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> [@RchdR](#):
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> double click on the line and it opens the hilighted line in its own window

Yes, I initially thought about that, but since double-click is used to highlight a word, I discarded the idea.

But now, reading your comment, I think a good alternative is `Ctrl-Click`. I’ve just added a new release with this feature, and it is a lot faster to use. Thanks for the suggestion.

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**Author:** ![RchdR](https://clarionhub.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@RchdR](https://clarionhub.com/u/RchdR)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 9:38am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/debugview-with-message-view/8551/4 "2025-09-01T09:38:25Z")

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Yeah there’s lots of way to do it. I dont know what else it does regarding hot keys, but if you were to adopt the standard file explorer highlighting/selecting of files, a right mouse double click might be a better way to popup a window for each highlighted line.

So many ways to play it.

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**Author:** ![MarkGoldberg](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/markgoldberg/32/1511_2.png) [@MarkGoldberg](https://clarionhub.com/u/MarkGoldberg)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/debugview-with-message-view/8551/5 "2025-09-01T19:58:14Z")

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Interesting work!

One ui thought would be to have a splitter and expand / format the currently selected row

That way would have minimal clicking