Debugging and the execution path

Alex Tweedly alex at tweedly.net
Sat Dec 17 16:41:32 EST 2005


graham samuel wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:49:19 +0000, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net>  
> wrote:
>
>>
>> In the Variable Watcher, just to the right of the drop-down menu of
>> objects/contexts, there is a button like a scroll of paper.  Clicking on
>> that will take you to the script line of the currently selected  
>> context.
>>
>> Also, in the script editor, you can use the menu View / Go to line ...
>> to go to a line number. Unfortunately, you can't do that while in
>> debugger mode - the whole View menu is not enabled at that point.
>
>
> So that means that the debugger telling me that I was executing line  
> 437 in a certain script is kind of unhelpful, unless I choose to  
> count the lines when not in debugger mode, or unless the jumping-off  
> point in the calling script is obvious for example because it's the  
> only call to a particular handler (which would make the need to  
> identify line 437 redundant).
>
No - you can click on the "scroll of paper" button in the VW window and 
it will move to that line in the script editor window.

Or, if you have already figured out what the problem is, then you can 
click on "Abort", and then you have "Go to line" available again.

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