'seeing' arrays in the variable watcher

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Wed Jun 8 09:14:08 EDT 2005


Pat,

Yes I downloaded 2.6 and just did about Rev to make sure.
Is it right that there are only three panes? Left right and below?

Thanks, no luck here

tom

On Jun 8, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Pat Trendler wrote:

> Tom,
>
> Sorry, this is about 2.6. You are using 2.6?
>
> Pat
> patrend at bigpond.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Trendler" 
> <ptrendler at bigpond.com>
> To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:08 PM
> Subject: Re: 'seeing' arrays in the variable watcher
>
>
>> Did you click on testArrayA? - you have to do that to get it to 
>> display.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas McGrath III" 
>> <3mcgrath at adelphia.net>
>> To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 9:36 PM
>> Subject: Re: 'seeing' arrays in the variable watcher
>>> I tried the code below and the variable watcher shows blank for 
>>> testArrayA
>>> I don't see what you are seeing.
>>> Tom
>>> On Jun 8, 2005, at 1:50 AM, Pat Trendler wrote:
>>>> I don't know if I'm misunderstanding this. But, if I run the 
>>>> handler below, in the variable watcher I can see :
>>>>
>>>> left pane            right pane
>>>> testArrayA     <array>
>>>>
>>>> in the panes below
>>>>
>>>> [1]                    test1
>>>> [2]                    test2
>>>> [3]                    test3
>>>>
>>>> if the contents don't show, clicking on the name shows them.
>>>> You may have to move the dividers to see the different panes.
>>>>
>>>> What else should I be able to see?
>>>>
>>>> Pat
>>>> patrend at bigpond.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Barncard" 
>>>> <stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com>
>>>> To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 1:36 PM
>>>> Subject: 'seeing' arrays in the variable watcher
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> the usual array test in a button...
>>>>>
>>>>> on mouseUp
>>>>>   global testArrayA
>>>>>   put "test1" into testArrayA[1]
>>>>>   put "test2" into testArrayA[2]
>>>>>   put "test3" into testArrayA[3]
>>>>>   repeat with n = 1 to 3
>>>>>     put testArrayA[n]  & return after theOut
>>>>>   end repeat
>>>>>   put theOut
>>>>> end mouseUp
>>>>>
>>>>> returns in the msg...
>>>>>
>>>>> test1
>>>>> test2
>>>>> test2
>>>>>
>>>>> but I don't see anything different in the variable watcher. Under 
>>>>> what conditions does one 'see' the arrays values in Rev 2.6??
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> stephen barncard
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At 7:43 PM -0500 6/7/05, Ken Ray wrote:
>>>>>> Sorry, but one of the things I like about the debugger is that 
>>>>>> you can
>>>>>> select and/or change values of a variable while you're debugging. 
>>>>>> You (a)
>>>>>> can't do that with array element values, and (b) if your element 
>>>>>> contains
>>>>>> more than one line, you only see the first line in the debugger 
>>>>>> and there's
>>>>>> no way to see anything else.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Don't get me wrong - I'm happy to see arrays in the debugger, but 
>>>>>> I think it
>>>>>> didn't go far enough, IMHO.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ken Ray
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