> Well not having played with the debugger before, I read Charlie > Areharts presentation on it, and after some head scratching and one > crash, I set up a dev mapping opened my default.cfm, added a couple > breakpoints, and started a debug session. > > Lo and behold, up pops this ultra cool window that shows every > variable on that page and it's contents, including form, and > cgi, queries, and all sorts of other cool stuff. Looks like 90% of the > info on the standard debug is there, plus all the variables. So, you > will forgive me if I differ when you say it only allows IE > integration, unless of course, I misunderstood. > > Damn...I wish I had looked at this earlier, totally changes the way I > debug. Thank you Jim for asking this question! :) > > I did have a problem getting this to work with an MX server...I'm off > to play with it a bit more and see if I can find the problem. If they > enhanced the debugging in DW...it might be a reason to switch for me.
That's a little different from what I meant by "debug output". By debug output, I just meant the stream of information you can see after a page has been processed. When you set breakpoints in CF Studio, you're seeing a lot of the same information at runtime. This is similar to the typical debugger in a traditional programming IDE, which lets you see the internal state of your program at each breakpoint you set. You're right to differ, of course, since I neglected to mention that. Unfortunately, it's been my experience that this doesn't really work that well. The CF server often becomes unstable after using this debugger, and it's not unusual to have the debugger crash either your server, or Studio, or both. I've found that the normal debug output is useful enough for most problems, so I've steered clear of the runtime debugger and haven't used it since it was covered in the Allaire course material long ago. And, no, this functionality isn't in Dreamweaver either. In Dreamweaver, you can display the standard debug output in a separate panel, where it'll be automatically parsed and shown as a tree, which is kind of neat. You can't set breakpoints in Dreamweaver to the best of my knowledge. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
