How to have code know if it is being run from a batch or not?

Hello All,

I am trying to debug some code with the below if statement:

GeacOutbound geacOutbound;

BatchHeader batchHeader;

if(batchHeader)

{

geacOutbound = GEACOutbound::newNoDate();

geacOutbound.run();

}

else

{

geacOutbound = GEACOutbound:newDate(runDate);

geacOutbound.run();

}

It seem to me the the if(batchHeader) statment is there to direct the class what to do if this class is run as a batch, but in testing it appears that the code is always executing the else command.

Short of turnning on debugging in visual studio so I can run batch jobs in debugging, is there any other documents on the BatchHeader class or ideas why this class is skipping the if(batchHeader) statments?

Another question I just thought of. Is the batch header always present when a class is run from RunBatchBase?

Thank you for any help on this,

Phil