I do :)

A plugin that shows all the #flag: messages

Ben

On Aug 4, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Fernando Olivero <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> What about a Nautilus plugin, that allows browsing all the methods
> that send #halt, #flag:,#log:? (the "development" messages).
> 
> 
> That's a great idea. In fact, I remember being sit at my desk in Douai and 
> doing that with Guille..
> Guille, do you remember? 
>  
> Since finding all the halts, doesn't seem something that needs to be
> performed all the time, an optional Nautilus plugin would suffice.
> 
> 
> Fernando
> 
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Mariano Martinez Peck wrote
> >>
> >>> Another thought, are there any plans for a "breakpoint" facility, so that
> >>> I don't dirty a package by only inserting 'self halt' to aid debugging.
> >> it already exists. Right click on a method -> Add breakpoint
> >>
> >
> > I, too would love to have the features you suggest. However, as it stands, I
> > would strongly advise against using breakpoints (someone definitely let me
> > know, maybe this is not still a problem in 2.0). In my experience, they are
> > incredibly buggy. Historically:
> > * if you add a breakpoint in one tool, and try to disable it in another, it
> > may still be active; and who remembers what tool they enabled it in???
> > * there is very little feedback as to when a breakpoint is enabled
> >   - no icon in the browsers
> >   - the menu item was "toggle breakpoint" instead of dynamically "enable"
> > vs. "disable"
> >
> > In all, I found it very confusing to figure out when a breakpoint was
> > enabled, and how to disable. Of course, anyway, these are not breakpoints as
> > typically offered by an IDE, which can be attached to any statement, but
> > only at the method level.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sean
> >
> >
> >
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> > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >
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> Mariano
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