When there is a lot of debug output, the debug window auto-clears and auto-scrolls. This sometimes makes it very hard to inspect a single object. It would be useful to have a button that allows suspending incoming debug messages.

Suspend debug button

gregorius 16 December 2025 06:15 16

Hm did you do a search before posting here --> Feature Request: Pause debug panel

I guess you're not the first person and the good news is it's in the backlog for version 3.

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Suspend debug button

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