I added "debugout" statments in the method of a form and it works when executing form with VFP 7 (i.e. in development mode) but not when when I run the compiled project.

Is this a feature (if so I do not see in the help file)?
Is there a way to get it to work?
If not what are my alterternatives. I need to save values of variables for debugging purposes when the user is executing the application.