Buggy debugger?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Jul 11 22:46:15 EDT 2005


On 7/11/05 8:34 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:

> The details of my debugger frustration, previously described:
> 
>> It works fine on, for example, a simple mouseUp script in a simple 
>> button. However, if the button sends a message to a handler in a stack 
>> script (for instance), which then sends another message to another 
>> handler, nested or not, the debugger won't follow along. "Script debug 
>> mode" is definitely turned on. Step Into, etc., are absent and/or 
>> dimmed out, typically. Sometimes, I can see the script window open, 
>> several windows back, but I can't get to it until the script is done 
>> executing. I've tried setting multiple breakpoints in each handler, 
>> tried setting breakpoints by script. The script rolls right past them.

I think Eric mentioned this after you wrote last time, but the debugger 
doesn't track "send to" messages. It tracks everything else, but if you 
"send" a handler to another object the debugger won't follow along.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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