Breakpoints being ignored

[Mark Wieder]

Bob Sneidar <bobs at ...> writes:

> 
> Actually, Mark Weider has done a lot to make GLX2 stable and better.

Thanks!

 The current version seems to be working
> really well. To my knowledge, PowerDebug has never been the source of any
issues I have run into, but my
> memory is really bad so take that with a grain of salt. The issues I have had
were also present in the vanilla
> debugger if I recall. I will go so far as to say that many of the features in
the built-in editor and debugger
> were the result of Jerry's pioneering work in GLX2. PowerDebug is just the
GLX2 debugger broken out as a
> separate plugin (correct me if I am wrong).

I originally broke the debugger out as a separate plugin because mixing the code
together was starting to get hopelessly complicated. And I wanted to have the
debugger work with Remo. There are only a few points of contact between the
script editor and the debugger, so it was easy enough to pull these out into an
api. But PowerDebug rapidly took on a life of its own with added features and
more robustness, especially as it evolved the ability to debug standalone
applications.
 
> 
> I like PowerDebug for a few reasons, not the least of which is a hotkey for
step over, into and what have you. I
> especially like usign the spacebar to step through code. I think their
variable inspector is really well
> done as well. Being able to view the contents of an array has been especially
useful to me and is primarily
> why I even use the LC arrays after becoming so used to numbered key style
arrays. I also like the way tabs are
> managed, and the bread crumbs feature is genius.

My favorite features of GLX2 are breadcrumbs, handler links, and folders. I
really miss all those when I have to work in the IDE's script editor. OTOH, the
IDE has better search capabilities. 

> The problem of course, with this kind of editor and debugger, as Jerry has
pointed out in the past, is that
> because it is done entirely in LC, the potential for breaking it when new
versions of LC come out that make
> changes to the engine is always a factor.

<groan>
Quite right. And the changes, when they come, aren't usually documented, forcing
a mad scramble and regression test with each new release.
</groan>

Back on topic, the soft breakpoints set in the editor are stored as custom
properties of the target stack and sometimes don't align properly any more with
the script text. Recompiling the script *should* fix this, but doesn't always do
that. Removing the custom property and setting the breakpoints again should work.

-- 
 Mark Wieder