Can anyone confirm this possible bug ?

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Wed Aug 29 13:13:14 EDT 2012


That is probably why I have not seen it for a long time. I use Powerdebug and I love it!

Bob


On Aug 29, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Bob-
> 
>> 
>> I have found in the past, although mush less nowadays that the debugger would
> turn itself off under certain
>> conditions, like certain script errors. I never figured out why, but updates
> and LC versions later it
>> doesn't seem to happen anymore. I think once in the last 6 months it happened.
> It always seems to be when I am
>> breaking into the debugger due to a runtime error. Afterwards it seemed to be
> off. 
> 
> I haven't run without PowerDebug in ages, so I can't comment on the current
> state of the built-in debugger, but previously the engine would disable debug
> mode on encountering an error in a system stack. This, I suppose, was to prevent
> snowballing errors. It's not completely clear to me why someone would want to
> disable debug mode (disabled mode means just ignore any errors), so PowerDebug
> ensures that it's enabled.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Wieder
> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> 
> 
> 
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