Debugging and the execution path

[Charles Hartman]

I think (though I've certainly never written a debugger) that "true"  
watch-points would be a whole lot harder to write. And they're by no  
means as often useful. I'd let that go at least for now.

Charles


On Dec 24, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote:

> It seems there are two requests...
>
> - one to make a variable whose value has just changed to be easy to  
> see and
> - another to stop execution, like a breakpoint.
>
> Right?
>
> Best,
>
> Jerry Daniels
>
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> On Dec 24, 2005, at 8:09 PM, Dennis Brown wrote:
>
>> Jerry,
>>
>> The reason I wanted a "watched" variables folder was not because I  
>> expected execution to stop if any value changed, it was because I  
>> have so many variables, that I wanted to reduce the widow area  
>> needed to see all the variables I needed to see in order to debug  
>> the suspect area of a script.  Half of my variables are arrays  
>> (large ones) --and globals at that.  So any of these methods that  
>> allow a reduced set of variables to be visible at once are of  
>> interest to me.  Many times I am desk checking the result of a  
>> variable that has changed against the variables used in the  
>> calculation, so even though the input variable values did not  
>> change, I still want to see their values.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> PS.  Please send me the test version also and I will see how I  
>> like it.
>>
>>
>> On Dec 24, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Jerry Daniels 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.
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