debugger

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Yves COPPE <yvescoppe at skynet.be> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> Working on Mac OSX with Rev 2
> I'd like to debug a script
> can't find the trick to use de debug menu to perform
> the debug
> 
> I've searched in the doc
> Nothing
> Can anyone help me ??
> 
> With Rev 1 it was easy
> Now it's a big problem ??
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings.
> Yves COPPE
> 
> 

Bonsoir Yves,

Here's the trick :
- open the script you want to debug
- use the Debug menu to turn on script debugging
- now click in th white space to the left of the
script
- a red dot will appear and upon execution of that
line of the script, the debugger will stop
- below your script, at the bottom of the window
you'll see buttons 'Step into', 'Step over', 'Trace',
'Run' and 'Abort' (self-explanatory?)
- in the debug window you'll also find items 'Variable
watcher' and 'Message watcher'
- you can use these to keep track of variable contents
and the events sent through the message path
- an extra neat trick in the variable watcher, is that
you can set a 'Stop' condition ; this allows you to
start debugging once a global becomes 0, for instance
- click to the left of the name of the variable, and
enter an expression in the ask dialog box.
- you can also use the 'Debug' menu to clear all the
breakpoints, etc.

Hope this helped, and if you have any more questions,
don't hesitate to poke us,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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