Jerry Daniels wrote:
Dick,
I threw together a quick Var Watcher last night that puts the calling
path into a pop up menu above the vars, much like Rev's Var Watcher
does. Each item in the menu looks like this:
stack "save test"/button "Button"/handler "mouseUp"/line: 7
I find that a bit verbose.
The label of the pop up menu is the current execution context.
Clicking the menu displays the calling path in order from last to
first in the format you see above. The format is easy to change if
you think it would look better some other way. I also thought of
making more like the transcript syntax:
line "7" of handler "mouseUp" of button "button" of stack "save
test"
Not sure which approach more clearly delineates that item as part of
the calling path.
And that even more verbose :-)
I'd consider suppressing the stack name unless it is different from the
breakpoint's stack name.
I would like to see it as brief as possible, with an easy way to get the
full version (such as pop-up text like a tooltip for the full info, with
only object / handler / line shown normally).
Funtionality: I made the menu switch execution contexts upon picking
another menu item. In terms of the list of vars, upon clicking they
are editable.
What puzzles me is the fact that every one wanted the calling path
when, as far as I can tell, it's already in the Rev Var Watcher. They
call it the "execution contexts." Please tell me if I'm missing
something.
Rev VW has only partial info - it's missing the handler name which is
one of the the most important parts.
Conclusion: I'm not sure that the watcher I built would offer much
new, other than the fact that it would reside in the upper two panes
of Constellation where the props and previews sit ordinarily. I could
make the array elements editable, I suppose.
There is lots of value waiting to be added :-)
- currently you can only see data in an array by clicking on that
variable to see each element in the "extended" display area; you could
display the first few elements in the "line per variable" display.
- same issue for multi-line variables; you could (as an option) display
e.g. "\n" or "\r\n" for the newlines, and hence show a few lines
directly in "line per var" mode
- make it an expression watcher - i.e. allow the user to specify an
expression to evaluate & display
- allow user-selection of variables to hide or display (and hence
eliminate scrolling back and forwards to see the two or three variables
that are most interesting).
- highlight values changed since last display
- allow display of variables from another context
That's enough for a (good) start :-)
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