Debugging Spotter previews in Pharo 4

Just wanted to share in case someone has the same problem:

In Pharo4.0 Latest update: #40617 when one puts a #halt into a
<spotterPreview:> tagged method nothing happens. No debugger - nothing.
Also no output on the Transcript.

One can fix this easily in GTSpotterPreviewBrick>>updatePreviewWith: by
replacing Exception with Error.

Would be nice if this could be integrated as a backport in
Pharo 4.0 somehow.

Thx
T.

There is a better fix that also catches and logs Errors. https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/15772/spotter-is-undebuggable

I'll make an issue to back port it to pharo 4

Cheers,

Andrei

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Torsten Bergmann <[hidden email]> wrote:

Just wanted to share in case someone has the same problem:

In Pharo4.0 Latest update: #40617 when one puts a #halt into a
<spotterPreview:> tagged method nothing happens. No debugger - nothing.
Also no output on the Transcript.

One can fix this easily in GTSpotterPreviewBrick>>updatePreviewWith: by
replacing Exception with Error.

Would be nice if this could be integrated as a backport in
Pharo 4.0 somehow.

Thx
T.