On Aug 23, 6:32 am, Lautaro Dolberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, again:
> To be more specific im intrested in what part of the code builds the list in
> the watch tab (variables and objects like navigator, etc) when the debbuger
> stop at a certain breakpoint.

That would be the updateSelection() method of the watch panel, in
dom.js.

jjb

> Thanks.
> Lautaro
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Lautaro Dolberg <[email protected]
>
> > wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:02 PM, John J Barton <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> On Aug 13, 9:49 am, lingg <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Hi folks,
>
> >> > as it is my first post to this group, I want to acknowledge all the
> >> > contributors that made firebug possible. I is fare the best tool for
> >> > web development and makes my life much easier, thanks!
>
> >> Thanks for the encouragement!
>
> >> > I like a lot the feature, that makes the debugger break on every
> >> > error. That really saves time! But there is one aspect you could
> >> > improve: it is normal practice to user try-catch statements that
> >> > except errors. Using both, the try statements and autobreak is not
> >> > usefull as you are supposed to continue a lot of breaks.
>
> >> > Is it possible to introduce a configuration to disable the autobreak
> >> > at errors within try statements?
>
> >> Yes, but this feature requires help from the internals of Firefox.
> >> When an error occurs the callstack points to the error. To know if
> >> there is a catch block we have to look at the enclosing blocks in
> >> every function on the stack. But we have no access to the enclosing
> >> blocks other than the names of variables declared.
>
> >  We've asked for
> >> this information, but we've asked for a lot of other things as well
> >> but nothing come of asking. I guess we just have to wait for someone
> >> in Mozillla to want such a feature.
>
> >> What you can do as an alternative is to use Firebug > Console > mini-
> >> menu > ShowStackTrace for errors, plus, when an error occurs, set an
> >> error breakpoint and re-run. In the Console to the left of the error
> >> you will see a place for setting the error breakpoint.
>
> >> jjb
>
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Christoph
>
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> > Hello:
> > Im intrested in getting access to the variables declared of an enclosing
> > block, or at certain breakpoint at a given script.
> > I have asked mozilla ppl how I can do that with JSD, an then I got this
> > code.
> >http://code.google.com/p/gpsee/source/browse/extras/gsrdb/gsrdb.js#104<http://code.google.com/p/gpsee/source/browse/extras/gsrdb/gsrdb.js#1042>
> > 2
> > But the way they are using the jsd object does not match the interface I
> > have been using
> >http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.9.2/source/js/jsd/idl/jsdIDebuggerSer...
> > Im wondering if anybody can point me or tell me where I should take a look
> > to figure out how firebug get this access?
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Lautaro

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