Conditional compile statements

Code can be included or excluded from an application or module at compile time by using conditional compile statements which evaluate conditional compile constants. This can be helpful to exclude "developer only" features from a compiled application, for example.

Conditional compile constants can be declared explicitly in a module using #Const or can be set in the Project Properties -> Make tab -> Conditional Compilation Argument. These constants must be Boolean. Multiple constants should be are colon delimited (e.g. DEVEL_OPTIONS = -1 : ADMIN_OPTIONS = 0). If constants are set in the Project Properties, they do not have to be declared in the code.

Conditional compile statements are enclosed in #If... Then/#Else/#End If directives.

Example:

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