Debugging and the execution path

Jerry Daniels jerry at daniels-mara.com
Sat Dec 24 22:27:54 EST 2005


Sarah,

As I said below, the Variable watcher I was talking about is not  
embedded yet, but is freestanding.

Best,

Jerry Daniels

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On Dec 24, 2005, at 7:47 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Yes please, I'd like to give it a go. I haven't contributed to this
> debate because I don't feel strongly about the VW the way some do, but
> when in Constellation, it irks to have to step outside to use the
> variable watcher. It fees like it should be part of the same window,
> perhaps replacing some other panel during a debug.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
>
>
>
> On 12/25/05, Jerry Daniels <jerry at daniels-mara.com> wrote:
>> Question for Variable Watching folks:
>>
>> Why do we want a list of watched variables?
>>
>> I ask this because I only want to see them if their value changes.
>>
>> What if any value that changes is hilited?
>>
>> That approach would be far more economical (processing time, and real
>> estate) AND I think it gives the desired effect--you get to watch any
>> variable whose value changes after the execution of a line of code.
>>
>> But maybe I'm missing something. Before you answer that, read the
>> next paragraph, please.
>>
>> NOTE for Constellation Users: If you would like to see the approach
>> to variable watching that I just mentioned, let me know and I'll
>> email you a non-released version of Constellation that has a free-
>> standing (non embedded) version of this variable watcher.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jerry Daniels
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Tool makers for the 21st century
>> http://www.daniels-mara.com/products
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 24, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote:
>>
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> Good reason to have a folder of globals not being used in current
>>> handler.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jerry Daniels
>>>
>>> Tool makers for the 21st century
>>> http://www.daniels-mara.com/products
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 24, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jerry-
>>>>
>>>> Saturday, December 24, 2005, 10:03:29 AM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Good idea. YAP - Yet Another Preference. I've got the process of
>>>>> adding prefs down to a science, now. It can take as little as 15
>>>>> minutes.
>>>>
>>>> Where you might want to display all globals is the case where  
>>>> you've
>>>> made a typo in the name of one and have accidentally ended up with
>>>> two
>>>> globals. Just displaying the currently-in-use globals wouldn't  
>>>> reveal
>>>> this, but displaying the whole list would. If you have to use  
>>>> globals
>>>> I like the idea of being able to toggle the list.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> -Mark Wieder
>>>>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>>>>
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