an ignored breakpoint

[Ben Rubinstein]

On 06/09/2012 02:09, Kay C Lan wrote:
> I could have 6-12 breakpoints across half a dozen handlers/functions across
> a 1000 lines of code. I couldn't imagine finding and resetting all of
> those, just to ensure they worked, if I used 'red dots' instead.

On 06/09/2012 04:45, Kay C Lan wrote:> One thing I like a lot about 
breakpoints is I can quickly and easily turn
> On and Off all/selected breakpoints in all/selected scripts using Find and
> Replace.  Find 'breakpoint' Replace with '--breakpoint' and vice versa. I
> don't even have to type it, because I've done it before those strings
> appear in the option buttons in the Find and Replace window.
>
> It then also makes it very easy to reinstate some/all breakpoints.

Hi Kay

I appreciate you've had trouble with red dots - and that you also mentioned 
some other factors you appreciate about 'breakpoint', eg persistence - but I 
thought that since you've evidently not used red dots for a while you may not 
have noticed that the script editor now has a 'Breakpoints' tab which tracks 
all the red dots in all scripts/stacks.

 From here you can delete, or enable/disable each one without deleting it and 
can edit the condition on each - and can also double-click to go directly to 
that line of code, opening the relevant script if required.  (So I suppose 
disabled breakpoints could be used as a kind of bookmark.)  This area also 
provides access to variable watches if you use those (I hadn't realised until 
just now that we had this facility!).

Apologies if you already knew this.  On the other hand, I only just learnt 
from your emails that I could switch off "Script Debug Mode" to disable all 
hard-coded 'breakpoint' statements!

Ben