debugging javascript in html5

Fri Mar 18 07:30:59 EDT 2022

On 2022-03-18 11:19, Bernard Devlin via use-livecode wrote:
> Here's a peculiarity I haven't seen mentioned before.  I am trying to 
> test
> the viability of the idea of a function to call back to LC and provide
> debugging info.
> 
> Assume you create a LC function lclog(pmsg,pval) and you put a 
> breakpoint
> in the IDE inside that function body.  Set the htmltext of a browser 
> widget
> to the code below, set the javascriptHandlers of the browser to contain 
> the
> word: lclog . Your browser widget will have a button 'clickme'.
> 1) On clicking that button the JS alerts ALL trigger first.
> 2) After they have fired the first call to lclog() runs, and the second
> call to lclog() never runs.
> 
> <html><head><script>
> 
> function lcxhr(method, url) {
> 
> alert('lcxhr called');
> 
> var json = JSON.stringify({ name: "John", surname: "Smith"});
> 
> liveCode.lclog('json created', json);
> 
> alert('you see this alert before the above call to lclog()');
> 
> liveCode.lclog('exit js function','');
> 
> }</script>

So this is quite separate from what happens in the web engine which 
works very differently.

Embeddable browsers are inherently asynchronous in their execution (not 
necessarily in a multi-thready way, although that does play a part) - 
but more in the sense that you can't get an embedded browser to do 
anything and have it 'block' until it is done.

The converse is also true - the request to call an LC handler from the 
browser widget is basically a post - not a send - which means that 
(really) you can only call LC handlers as tail calls - i.e. as the last 
thing on a handler.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

P.S. The web engine is (essentially) the running the LC script 'as 
JavaScript' so the same limitation does not apply - calling LC handlers 
from JS in the web engine is synchronous.

-- 
Mark Waddingham ~ mark at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
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