Dear Jacque,
I know too well the rabbit holes that lies deep into some LC projects.
As Richard have guessed, by using a ton of behaviors and libraries, you
can end up with code that you can't easily trace and also which becomes
quite hard to debug. As Jacque and I worked on the same project, one
that is quite hard to debug on mobile, I came to realize that we needed
some better tools.
To solve that I made a "Network Tracer" tool to help me debug exact
those apps. Think of it as a message box with more features, allowing
you to not only display text and variable contents but also trace back
where those texts are coming from. The network tracer work over LAN so
you can have the phone and LC IDE on the same wifi network and should
just work. I made a video showing it working at:
https://vimeo.com/296722452
There is more information about it at my homepage at:
http://andregarzia.com/livecode/
Cheers
andre
On 27/12/2018 18:21, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
The issue is remote debugging. Script only stacks save nothing but
scripts. Breakpoints are stored as custom properties which are lost
when the stack is saved as part of a standalone, so when testing a
mobile app they are gone and the debugger is unavailable.
I've heard you can insert hard-coded breakpoint commands in the script
instead but I haven't tried that yet. (Then you need to track them
down and remove them when they are no longer needed.) Another way,
which I did try, is to insert a temporary red dot breakpoint into the
binary stack script and then step into the handlers in the script only
stack from there, but in my case that meant stepping over a few
hundred lines, which was tedious, and then when I got to the handler
in question, the erroring line took over and ran to the end without
stopping.
I'd heard that once the debugger is triggered you should be able to
add new temporary breakpoints dynamically, but when I tried that after
stepping into the script only stack it didn't work. This was before
the fix that removed the ghosted remote scripts, so maybe it would
work now.
At any rate, remote debugging a script only stack isn't easy and is
sometimes impossible.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On December 26, 2018 10:51:25 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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