[Scilab-users] support on scilab 6 new debug feature

[Clément David]

Hi David,

Well it seems that `debug/exec` is not working the expected way (in fact it does not execute a file
but an expression). Please open a bug to clarify and improve the current behavior.

Thanks,

--
Clément

Le vendredi 29 janvier 2016 à 08:46 +0000, CHEZE David 227480 a écrit :
> Hi Clement,
> 
> I'm running the scilab6  alpha 2 on WIN7-64bits and I actually read help page about debug.
> Currently I'm updating a module that runs well with scilab5.5.1 to Scilab 6 and I've an issue:
> that's the context for using new debug instead of former "pause".
> Then I start :
> debug
> break myfunctioninmymodule
> exec demoofmymodule.sce
> 
> and it fails, complaining about expecting end of line etc...
>  
> To be able to debug I have to put the debug command in my demos script and then execute the
> script.
> Then it works.
> Break> n
> ...
> 
> 
>  But it's not what I would have expect and understand by reading the help page (what is very
> useful in the newx debug feature is  that you should not have to modify the code itself). That's
> why I was looking about debugging Scilab modules for examples, maybe I've done something wrong.
> 
> Thank you for feedback,
> 
> David
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : users [mailto:users-bounces at lists.scilab.org] De la part de Clément David
> Envoyé : jeudi 28 janvier 2016 16:14
> À : users at lists.scilab.org
> Objet : Re: [Scilab-users] support on scilab 6 new debug feature
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> The nightly build help is not available on help.scilab.org but we can either type `help debug` on
> a nightly build or read the raw XML on the source tree [1].
> 
> Note that this debug feature has no integration on SciNotes yet.
> 
> [1]: http://gitweb.scilab.org/?p=scilab.git;a=blob_plain;f=scilab/modules/core/help/en_US/debuggin
> g/
> debug.xml;h=e3add1ee53bd1fc5a7192569d313a4046e607fc5;hb=HEAD
> 
> --
> Clément
> 
> Le jeudi 28 janvier 2016 à 03:06 -0700, David Chèze a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm looking after documentation in any format regarding the new debug 
> > feature introduced in scilab 6. Especially trying to debug a module 
> > under development, I'm sure they are some tricks to avoid traps I'm 
> > presently falling in...
> > 
> > Thanks for any link to put me on track !
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > 
> > 
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