Debugger Enhancement

[neeraj]

I frequently find myself going back several lines of code in the debugger as I am developing, executing, fixing code. Currently I have to click on the << key many times. It gets tiring very soon. There should be a way to either drag the line of execution or ability to jump back to a particular line in the debugger. Does this already exist?

[DanB|Dyalog]

Hi,
I don't know if this will help but I often find myself in the same situation and I use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-Backspace to go back one line instead of using the button.
The difference here is that you can go back quickly to a previous line by holding down the key, something you cannot do with the button.
/Dan

[neeraj]

Thanks Dan, that will make it easier, but the request still stands. This would be a very useful enhancement. The Dyalog debugger is used not just for debugging but for development as well!!!

[Vince|Dyalog]

Hi Neeraj,

I've logged this request in our Request for Enhancement (RFE) database.

Regards,

Vince

[Dick Bowman]

Can I suggest another possible enhancement - or give someone the chance to tell me that it's already done?

I'd like to be able to make stops "present but inactive". What I'm thinking about here is that sometimes I want to put a whole lot of stops into some code (many functions/operators) so that I can review/revise. Which means that I have a functioning application (code-in-workspace) which is going to do a lot of stopping as it runs - which is inconvenient if I want to defer my code review and just run it as-is.

Wiping all the stops is too brutal (that session option really needs a "do you really want to?" prompt before it wipes everything out) - what I want to do is leave a marker that says "stop here if stopping is turned on".

Does that make sense?

[neeraj]

That is akin to the directive "##if _DEBUG_" in C/C++ (not sure of the exact syntax)