not in the window

Alejandro Jakubi — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:06:33 Z

I dislike the Standard GUI graphic debugger. I find it inconvenient and buggy. I prefer using the debugger in the CLI or the Classic GUI. Indeed, font options are available for them.

Aha

icegood — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:41:01 Z

That's why (but not maybe only) coryphaeuses prefer classic interface. But it's not my case, i have different GUI components from DocumentTools package on my sheet, so there is no way to simply change interface.

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Sorry, there is also CLI option i.e. command line interface. OK, it could be case

awkward at best

acer — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:23:08 Z

The Standard GUI's debugger is awkward to use. It is awkward but (far, far worse) also has several serious bugs.

The worst bug is a tendency to lock the session, and force shutdown of that kernel and closure of the document with no option to save. (I have been recently having to use it for some debugging of mixed-GUI-related stuff, and for my task simply accidentally putting the focus back to the main sheet -- while the debugger is still in action -- will cause such a freeze up every single time. But that is just one of many ways it can go very wrong and/or crash.)

But in a relative sense I care more about being able to use a better debugger while in Standard than I do about the bugs in the current debugger being fixed. One that is not graphical, with next-to-no mouse action required. One that crashes the kernel on me once per year at most (like in the CLI) instead of once per hour.

I don't understand why the text mode of the commandline interface's debugger cannot be optionally offered in the Standard GUI. It works in Classic, and just involves plain 1D text commands as input, and so why cannot it work in Standard and push out prettyprint=1 level output?

acer

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not in the window

Aha

awkward at best