Extending Pharo Debugger
Hello, I'm working on the Pharo debugger, and I wanted to add a button with new functionality just besides the buttons "Proceed" "restart" ... Is there an easy way to do it? Which is the class that I have to Modify/Extend in order to do that? I tried to look around the methods and I found where DebugSession is created, but I didn't see any clear reference to the UI or to how is constructed in it. Thank you in advance, Matteo
Hi Matteo, If you look, for example at RestartDebugAction, there is on the class side a method #gtStackDebuggingActionFor: that has the annotation <gtStackDebuggingAction>. To attach actions to the stack (proceed, resume, step into) the debugger looks for subclasses of DebugAction that have class side methods annotated with gtStackDebuggingAction. These methods can optionally receive the debugger instance as an argument. However you can also only have simple methods like 'PeelToFirstDebugAction class>>#gtActionType' Cheers, Andrei On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Matteo Marra <gallonba21@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I'm working on the Pharo debugger, and I wanted to add a button with new functionality just besides the buttons "Proceed" "restart" ...
Is there an easy way to do it? Which is the class that I have to Modify/Extend in order to do that?
I tried to look around the methods and I found where DebugSession is created, but I didn't see any clear reference to the UI or to how is constructed in it.
Thank you in advance, Matteo
Hi Andrei, thank you for your really fast answer! Cheers, Matteo 2016-10-04 16:20 GMT+02:00 Andrei Chis <chisvasileandrei@gmail.com>:
Hi Matteo,
If you look, for example at RestartDebugAction, there is on the class side a method #gtStackDebuggingActionFor: that has the annotation <gtStackDebuggingAction>.
To attach actions to the stack (proceed, resume, step into) the debugger looks for subclasses of DebugAction that have class side methods annotated with gtStackDebuggingAction.
These methods can optionally receive the debugger instance as an argument. However you can also only have simple methods like 'PeelToFirstDebugAction class>>#gtActionType'
Cheers, Andrei
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Matteo Marra <gallonba21@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I'm working on the Pharo debugger, and I wanted to add a button with new functionality just besides the buttons "Proceed" "restart" ...
Is there an easy way to do it? Which is the class that I have to Modify/Extend in order to do that?
I tried to look around the methods and I found where DebugSession is created, but I didn't see any clear reference to the UI or to how is constructed in it.
Thank you in advance, Matteo
While you are at it, make a button at the top with "Run to cursor". It is a missing one that requires oneto get the context menu to execute. Annoying. Phil On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Matteo Marra <gallonba21@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Andrei,
thank you for your really fast answer!
Cheers, Matteo
2016-10-04 16:20 GMT+02:00 Andrei Chis <chisvasileandrei@gmail.com>:
Hi Matteo,
If you look, for example at RestartDebugAction, there is on the class side a method #gtStackDebuggingActionFor: that has the annotation <gtStackDebuggingAction>.
To attach actions to the stack (proceed, resume, step into) the debugger looks for subclasses of DebugAction that have class side methods annotated with gtStackDebuggingAction.
These methods can optionally receive the debugger instance as an argument. However you can also only have simple methods like 'PeelToFirstDebugAction class>>#gtActionType'
Cheers, Andrei
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Matteo Marra <gallonba21@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I'm working on the Pharo debugger, and I wanted to add a button with new functionality just besides the buttons "Proceed" "restart" ...
Is there an easy way to do it? Which is the class that I have to Modify/Extend in order to do that?
I tried to look around the methods and I found where DebugSession is created, but I didn't see any clear reference to the UI or to how is constructed in it.
Thank you in advance, Matteo
Hi matteo What do you want to add? Stef Le 4/10/16 à 16:10, Matteo Marra a écrit :
Hello,
I'm working on the Pharo debugger, and I wanted to add a button with new functionality just besides the buttons "Proceed" "restart" ...
Is there an easy way to do it? Which is the class that I have to Modify/Extend in order to do that?
I tried to look around the methods and I found where DebugSession is created, but I didn't see any clear reference to the UI or to how is constructed in it.
Thank you in advance, Matteo
Hello Stephan, In the work for my thesis, I'm building a debugger for big data applications, that when a bug happens doesn't stop the computation but proceeds evaluating the next data. This opens a series of debuggers in separate threads, that are shown one by one. I added a button that allows me to restart and automatically proceed all the waiting debuggers from a certain point of the stack (assuming that the stack has the same "shape"), so basically after I fix a bug in the first debugger I can say to the others: ok, the bug is solved, restart yorself and proceed. The thing seems more or less to work, except some details that I still have to implement. Matteo 2016-10-06 7:40 GMT+02:00 stepharo <stepharo@free.fr>:
Hi matteo
What do you want to add?
Stef
Le 4/10/16 à 16:10, Matteo Marra a écrit :
Hello,
I'm working on the Pharo debugger, and I wanted to add a button with new functionality just besides the buttons "Proceed" "restart" ...
Is there an easy way to do it? Which is the class that I have to Modify/Extend in order to do that?
I tried to look around the methods and I found where DebugSession is created, but I didn't see any clear reference to the UI or to how is constructed in it.
Thank you in advance, Matteo
It looks fun :) Are you looking for more ideas for your thesis? Le 6/10/16 à 10:05, Matteo Marra a écrit :
Hello Stephan,
In the work for my thesis, I'm building a debugger for big data applications, that when a bug happens doesn't stop the computation but proceeds evaluating the next data. This opens a series of debuggers in separate threads, that are shown one by one. I added a button that allows me to restart and automatically proceed all the waiting debuggers from a certain point of the stack (assuming that the stack has the same "shape"), so basically after I fix a bug in the first debugger I can say to the others: ok, the bug is solved, restart yorself and proceed.
The thing seems more or less to work, except some details that I still have to implement.
Matteo
2016-10-06 7:40 GMT+02:00 stepharo <stepharo@free.fr <mailto:stepharo@free.fr>>:
Hi matteo
What do you want to add?
Stef
Le 4/10/16 à 16:10, Matteo Marra a écrit :
Hello,
I'm working on the Pharo debugger, and I wanted to add a button with new functionality just besides the buttons "Proceed" "restart" ...
Is there an easy way to do it? Which is the class that I have to Modify/Extend in order to do that?
I tried to look around the methods and I found where DebugSession is created, but I didn't see any clear reference to the UI or to how is constructed in it.
Thank you in advance, Matteo
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