ANN: PowerDebug now debugs standalone applications

[Mark Wieder]

Hi-

We're releasing a new version of PowerDebug. The major new addition is
the ability to debug standalone applications. And across different
computers in the same network subnet. And cross-platform (you can
debug an application running on a Windows machine using an IDE on OSX,
etc). And even revlets. LiveCode, MetaCard, Windows, OSX, linux.

Registered PowerDebug users are entitled to the updates, and should
already have gotten notification emails.

There's a text file in the zip archive describing debugging of
standalone applications, but the short form is this:

1. Include the libRemoteDebug.rev stack as a substack of your
   standalone application

2. Add this to the main stack of your standalone:

on startup
  insert the script of stack "libRemoteDebug" into front
end startup

and build your standalone application. If PowerDebug is running in the
same network subnet as the standalone then it will be able to catch
breakpoints and runtime errors just as if it were running in the IDE
(but see Known Issues below).

Known Issues:

There's a socket problem with standalones trying to change variable
values. Clicking in the variables display for standalones has been
disabled until this is worked out. It's apparently somewhere in the
engine, so it's out of my control for the moment.

The old revlet demo is still here
http://www.ahsoftware.net/PowerTools/PowerDebug/PDDemo.html
and there's an updated annoying nagware version on revOnline.

Even more, we're keeping the introductory pricing of $25 through the
end of May.

http://www.ahsoftware.net/PowerTools/BuyPowerDebug.irev


...and if you don't need all the bells and whistles, rumor has it that
Richard Gaskin has something in the works...

-- 
 Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net