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Suggestion for debugger enhancement

Carl Gundel-2
It would be great if switching between processes in the debugger did not ask if you wanted to discard changes but instead if it could remember the state of the debugger for each process.  Then you could be working on a method for one process, and then debug code in that context to create another process and switch to it without losing what you're doing in the first process.  Then switch back to the first process in the debugger and what you were working on is still there, even though it is unsaved.
 
Thanks,
 
-Carl

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Re: Suggestion for debugger enhancement

Richard Sargent
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On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 7:56:53 AM UTC-7, Carl Gundel wrote:
It would be great if switching between processes in the debugger did not ask if you wanted to discard changes but instead if it could remember the state of the debugger for each process.  Then you could be working on a method for one process, and then debug code in that context to create another process and switch to it without losing what you're doing in the first process.  Then switch back to the first process in the debugger and what you were working on is still there, even though it is unsaved.

That's a good point, Carl!


An alternative solution might be the ability to "open a process in a separate debugger window". For example, select a process and then select a menu item of a similar name. Of course, this requires advance planning to do this before starting to edit code for the other process.

Another alternative would be the ability to have every process open in a new debugger window.
 
 
Thanks,
 
-Carl

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Re: Suggestion for debugger enhancement

Carl Gundel-2
Hey Richard,
 
Yes, either of your suggested alternatives would be workable.  :-)
 
-Carl

On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 12:20:24 PM UTC-4, Richard Sargent wrote:
On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 7:56:53 AM UTC-7, Carl Gundel wrote:
It would be great if switching between processes in the debugger did not ask if you wanted to discard changes but instead if it could remember the state of the debugger for each process.  Then you could be working on a method for one process, and then debug code in that context to create another process and switch to it without losing what you're doing in the first process.  Then switch back to the first process in the debugger and what you were working on is still there, even though it is unsaved.

That's a good point, Carl!


An alternative solution might be the ability to "open a process in a separate debugger window". For example, select a process and then select a menu item of a similar name. Of course, this requires advance planning to do this before starting to edit code for the other process.

Another alternative would be the ability to have every process open in a new debugger window.
 
 
Thanks,
 
-Carl

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