breakpoints being ignored

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Thu Mar 9 10:43:40 EST 2017


I need to see if I can make it happen, again.  I wonder if going back and
forth between 9 to do remote debugging and 8 because 9 has issues may be
causing it.  Will file a bug report if I can repeat it.

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> These issues sound like they are to do with Script Debug Mode. Please check
> if this is turned on in the Development menu.
>
> Mike, this sounds like it was probably your issue too, especially if
> trashing your prefs fixed it, as Script Debug Mode on is the default.
>
> It *does* sound like there may be a new issue with Script Debug Mode
> getting turned off somehow, which seems worth looking into.
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:29 AM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
> <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > Interesting… this was happening to me today. on a hunch I set the
> > gRevDevelopment to true… thinking that because I had messed with that
> > yesterday while using the remote debugger on my android phone… I had done
> > something that was blocking script debug --  related to the action of
> > answering "No" to the dialog asking if you want to run a remoteDebug
> > session,  just after installing the standalone on the phone… because I
> > thought (have yet to test/reproduce… very tedious…) possibly that is at
> > least one action that might toggle script debug mode to off (even though
> it
> > appears checked?) and so your break point could possibly be ignored at
> that
> > point and until you reboot LC?
> >
> > Dunno, just was just fishing for possible recipes…
> >
> > but aha, gRevDevelopment, true:  the break point was "honored" Of course
> > it starting stepping through a lot of IDE code, so I had to go back and
> set
> > the gRevDevelopment to "false"  and now the break points work…
> >
> > ….of course if it goes all the way back to 8.1.3 and 6, then it could be
> > anything….
> >
> > BR
> >
> >
> > Mike Kerner wrote:
> >
> >     Add a "breakpoint" line as the first line in the script
> >     execute again
> >     breakpoint still doesn't fire.
> >
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