Remote Debugging (Was Re: Musings on Architect, MVC, Nested Behaviors)

[Andre Alves Garzia]

Dear Jacque,

I know too well the rabbit holes that lies deep into some LC projects. 
As Richard have guessed, by using a ton of behaviors and libraries, you 
can end up with code that you can't easily trace and also which becomes 
quite hard to debug. As Jacque and I worked on the same project, one 
that is quite hard to debug on mobile, I came to realize that we needed 
some better tools.

To solve that I made a "Network Tracer" tool to help me debug exact 
those apps. Think of it as a message box with more features, allowing 
you to not only display text and variable contents but also trace back 
where those texts are coming from. The network tracer work over LAN so 
you can have the phone and LC IDE on the same wifi network and should 
just work. I made a video showing it working at:

   https://vimeo.com/296722452

There is more information about it at my homepage at: 
http://andregarzia.com/livecode/

Cheers

andre

On 27/12/2018 18:21, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> The issue is remote debugging. Script only stacks save nothing but 
> scripts. Breakpoints are stored as custom properties which are lost 
> when the stack is saved as part of a standalone, so when testing a 
> mobile app they are gone and the debugger is unavailable.
>
> I've heard you can insert hard-coded breakpoint commands in the script 
> instead but I haven't tried that yet. (Then you need to track them 
> down and remove them when they are no longer needed.) Another way, 
> which I did try, is to insert a temporary red dot breakpoint into the 
> binary stack script and then step into the handlers in the script only 
> stack from there, but in my case that meant stepping over a few 
> hundred lines, which was tedious, and then when I got to the handler 
> in question, the erroring line took over and ran to the end without 
> stopping.
>
> I'd heard that once the debugger is triggered you should be able to 
> add new temporary breakpoints dynamically, but when I tried that after 
> stepping into the script only stack it didn't work. This was before 
> the fix that removed the ghosted remote scripts, so maybe it would 
> work now.
>
> At any rate, remote debugging a script only stack isn't easy and is 
> sometimes impossible.
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> On December 26, 2018 10:51:25 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>