Through trial and error I found what was crashing the compiler. var in
Apparently it overrides some global variable in (e.g. input stream) I changed it to var inches and added the document object selection and got the script to show, debug and work. Next step is to embed everything within an object. Patrick On Dec 5, 9:28 am, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > Please try Firebug 1.5b5,http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.5X. > If you still have a problem, post a complete test case > tohttp://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/listand I'll fix it. > > jjb > > On Dec 4, 11:49 pm, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I got the latest version of Firebug and installed in on Firefox 3.5.5 > > browser. > > > I have a Javascript file which shows up as an enabled script so long > > as I don't have the following function in the script file. > > > function onChangeUnitsOfLength() { > > var hUnits = getElementsById("hUnits"); > > var m = getElementById("m"); > > var in = getElementById("in"); > > var ft = getElementById("ft"); > > > switch(hUnits.value) { > > case 0: > > m.style.zIndex= "-1"; > > in.style.zIndex="0"; > > ft.style.display="inline"; > > break; > > case 1: > > m.style.zIndex="-1"; > > ft.style.display="none"; > > in.style.zIndex="0"; > > break; > > case 2: > > m.style.zIndex="0"; > > ft.style.display="none"; > > in.style.zIndex="-1"; > > break; > > default: > > }; > > > }; > > > When I add this function to the file, my file no longer shows in the > > drop down menu and there is no code where I can set breakpoints. I > > don't think an error in the code should break the debugger but it > > does. It would be nice if there were some way to spot errors in the > > code before you try to evaluate it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
