[ZeroBrane Studio] Re: Debugging
- From: "Clive Monk" <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <zerobrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 20:21:02 -0000
Hi Paul,
As you say, with just a bit of poking around I was able to get up and
running. Step debugging has to be the most important feature of an IDE.
Particularly for novices to a language. Your list below seems pretty
comprehension. I am a newbie to Lua so I am most definitely not in a
position to comment. My only issue is, without documentation, I can't be
sure if I am missing out on a useful feature which I haven't tripped over. I
guess one comment I do have is, given Lua's reliance on tables, is to
provide a clear and well structured display of tables when inspecting table
variables. Maybe an configuration option if useful aternative displays
exist.
Anyway, from the search I have conducted, there certainly is a need for a
well supported, feature rich, and robust IDE for Lua. Given Lua's wide use,
I have been surprised that this hasn't already occurred with the Lua
community coalescing around such a product.
Regards,
Clive
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul K" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <zerobrane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 6:54 PM
Subject: [ZeroBrane Studio] Re: Debugging
Hi Clive,
> I have installed Zerobrane and answered my own questions regarding
> debugging.
I tried to keep the UI simple enough so you can answer most of the
question by just poking around.
There is a short debugging overview in the "Getting Started" section
(http://studio.zerobrane.com/doc-getting-started.html#debugging_programs)
as well as a bit of information on using Console window
(http://studio.zerobrane.com/doc-getting-started.html#console_window)
and live coding
(http://studio.zerobrane.com/doc-getting-started.html#live_coding).
I do plan to have more detailed description of debugging functions as
you'd expect and it will be linked to the "Lua debugging" placeholder.
Feel free to take a stub at it if there are any particular topics
you'd like to see covered. I was thinking about describing stepping
through the code, breakpoints, breaking and continuing, stack view and
local variables, watch view, interactive console and expressions,
coroutine debugging, turning debugger on/off, and dynamic code
debugging (`loadstring`). Anything else you'd expect to see?
Paul.
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Clive Monk <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I have installed Zerobrane and answered my own questions regarding
> debugging.
>
> It looks like a big step above the other Lua IDEs I have looked at.
>
>
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