Re: [Help-smalltalk] Eval code in debugger

[Gwenaël Casaccio]

On 24/10/2013 07:47, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:17:33AM +0200, Gwenaël Casaccio wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The patch allows code evaluation while debugging and
> > allows to use the temps and the args name in the evaluated
> > code.
> lovely! the debugger is getting more and more usable and showing
> the power of Smalltalk/GST.
>
> >       inspectIt: object [
> >           <category: 'smalltalk event'>
> >   
> > -        self focusedWidget inspectIt: object
> > +        codeWidget hasFocus ifFalse: [ ^ self focusedWidget inspectIt: object 
> > ].
> > +        codeWidget hasSelection ifFalse: [ ^ self ].
> > +        (debugger eval: codeWidget selectedText) gtkInspect.
> something is not right. E.g. when I don't have anything selected
> in the code widget and no blinking cursor but the variable in
> "variables" is selected and I press CTRL+I I would want the inspector
> to popup on the variable but somehow I get an inspector with
> Behavior.
>
> Can you reproduce this? My example is the '1234' do: [:each | ]
> again.
>
> holger

Hi,

here is a new version of the patch the difference is that evaluated code is
done in an other process and without any references to the debugger
(the receiver of the closures is set to nil) otherwhise the exception 
handler
while doing a debuger class lookup will be nil.

Cheers,
Gwen

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