I've had this problem also. Say you want to stop in an onclick handler on an element in the page, but some enclosing element has an onmouseover handler. I go to the firebug script panel and click the pause button to activate break on next. Then as I move my mouse from the firebug window to my element of interest, I have to pass through its parent element and firebug breaks in it's onmouseover handler. I can never get to the element with the onclick event handler.
A similar scenario occurs if you have a setInterval timer running. It often fires before you can get from the firebug window to your element of interest on the page. A shortcut key to set break on next would help. ed On Oct 5, 11:44 am, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 5, 6:46 am, Basdub <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > What is mandatory is simply a shortcut key to activate the "break on > > next" button. I still don't understand why it's not available in > > 1.5.4. I have seen comments about waiting for a bug fix that has > > nothing to do with adding a shortcut key. > > Firebug 1.6b1 is available fromhttp://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.6X > > > > > > > > > > > > > In the current situation, I click on the "Break On Next" but and as > > soon as i leave the firebug window, an event is triggered and > > therefore can never reach the desired control on the page that i want > > to debug. > > > If we could move the pointer to the desired location, then use a > > shortcut to enable break on next, then click on the button or move the > > pointer to trigger the event desired, it would help incredibly. > > > For me, this feature is essential and incredible but useless at this > > time. It has now been several releases since the first comment about > > this issue has been posted. > > > Can someone please explain what prevents a developer from adding a row > > in the shortcut key window to allow us to configure a shortcut key for > > this button? > > I don't know of anything that would prevent you from adding this > feature. The source is available as described in the > FAQ:http://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/FAQ > Let us know if you need help. > > > > > I can understand that more options could come at a later time but > > please, I am begging you, add a shortcut to the button now so that > > this wonderful feature can be used and not just tease us ;-) > > > Thanks for your understanding > > Actually I don't understand what you are talking about. I don't think > this issue is relevant for Firebug 1.6. > > jjb -- 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.
