glx2

[Bob Sneidar]

A few notes about GLX2. There are no red dot breakpoints in GLX2 (unless I am missing something). 

So you might be tempted to turn on and off GLX2 as needed. Problem is, GLX2 has it's own versioning system  that allows you to go back x compiles to a prior version. The built-in compiler does not know about this, so switching from GLX2 back to the built-in debugger has a surprise for you. It will load a prior version of your script without all the changes you may have recently made. 

There is a feature to account for this, warning you that the version it's loading and the version it expected are not the same, but I have found this unreliable at times, and I have lost edits switching back and forth with a stack open. So don't get into the habit of turning it on and off in a session. Use it, or don't. 

Other than that, I like it a lot, especially the clarvoyance feature which presents a popup of similar matches after typing x characters. That is mainly what I use it for, along with the breadcrumbs feature which adds a link to where you were when you clicked a handler to go to that handler. 

Bob S


> On Oct 25, 2015, at 20:01 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <brahma at hindu.org> wrote:
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> wow… I didn’t fully realize that glx2 was still alive. I bought a license from Jerry for that years ago… loved it, 
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> just downloaded, 
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> thanks Mark
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> But: ha! forgot how it works… where is the documentation?
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> I see the sub bar gray notification underneath LC ide toolbar (7.1GM for me right now)  and the blue to gray to blue toggle on the GLX2 label.
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> How do you launch into it?
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> On 10/22/15, 11:08 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
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>> I¹d forgotten how much I liked GLX2. Thanks so much for maintaining it
>> Mark.
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>> Terry...
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