I implemented a "debugger" statement in ActionScript that works similarly to the JavaScript debugger statement:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/debugger In JavaScript, it translates directly. In SWF, the compiler generates bytecode for a call to flash.debugger.enterDebugger(). This is not an officially documented function in the Flash runtimes, but it's been around since AS3 was introduced, as far as I can tell. I would say that it's unlikely to be removed in the future. While I mentioned that I was considering using flash.system.System.pause(), it did not behave in the way that I originally hoped. In my tests, System.pause() seemed to pause rendering only, and code kept running without triggering the debugger. My changes are in the feature/debugger-statement branch of flex-falcon. I'll be happy to merge them into develop, if there's interest. - Josh On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm working on adding support for the debugger statement to the compiler > (FLEX-35343). I can successfully emit the debugger statement in the > generated JS so far. > > I'm not yet sure if I can make it work on the SWF side. I figured out > where I can generate bytecode instructions in ABCGeneratingReducer. If I > can figure out how to generate bytecode to call enterDebugger() (or > whatever the function is called), the debugger statement will work in both > SWF and JS. > > - Josh > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> If it were a variable or function, it could be defined somewhere like >> that. It's a statement, though, so it needs to be added to where Falcon >> creates the AST from the ActionScript code. Then, it also needs to emit the >> statement as JS in FalconJX. On the SWF side, it should be translated to >> appropriate bytecode to call enterDebugger(). >> >> - Josh >> >> On Jul 16, 2017 8:56 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> What needs to be modified? Does it need to be added to NativeJSType >>> enums? Somewhere else? >>> >>> I’m really not clear on when things to be added to that and when they >>> need to be in typedefs. >>> >>> > On Jul 16, 2017, at 6:51 PM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> >> The compiler needs to be modified to support the debugger statement. >>> >>> >
