Buggy debugger?

Eric Chatonet eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com
Tue Jul 12 03:31:48 EDT 2005


Hello,

There is another case where the debugger does not work: when the  
stack name begin with "rev".
It's not a bug but a feature, an annoying feature when you write  
plugins ;-)

Le 12 juil. 05 à 04:46, J. Landman Gay a écrit :

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com


Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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