Buggy debugger?
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Jul 11 22:46:15 EDT 2005
On 7/11/05 8:34 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:
> The details of my debugger frustration, previously described:
>
>> It works fine on, for example, a simple mouseUp script in a simple
>> button. However, if the button sends a message to a handler in a stack
>> script (for instance), which then sends another message to another
>> handler, nested or not, the debugger won't follow along. "Script debug
>> mode" is definitely turned on. Step Into, etc., are absent and/or
>> dimmed out, typically. Sometimes, I can see the script window open,
>> several windows back, but I can't get to it until the script is done
>> executing. I've tried setting multiple breakpoints in each handler,
>> tried setting breakpoints by script. The script rolls right past them.
I think Eric mentioned this after you wrote last time, but the debugger
doesn't track "send to" messages. It tracks everything else, but if you
"send" a handler to another object the debugger won't follow along.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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