Re: Debugging and the GUI Editor; Qt help needed

[John W. Eaton]

On 03/28/2013 07:44 AM, Torsten wrote:
> On 28.03.2013 08:43, John W. Eaton wrote:

> > The cursor is often displayed at the bottom of the window.  It might be
> > nice to automatically recenter.  Does someone know how to do that with
> > QScintilla?  I looked, but couldn't see how to do it easily.
>
> Changeset http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/f3c93e387865
> should fix this.

Thanks.  Should we also scroll the window to keep the position marker 
(the yellow arrow) near the center?

> If the command and editor widgets are tabbed or if the editor widget is
> floating and overlapping with the main window it is not possible to have
> both visible. Should the command widget keep the focus when the
> breakpoint was set from the command line?
>
> What should be done if the debugger stops at a breakpoint? I suggest to
> bring the editor on top.

If both editor and command window are tabbed, is it possible to split 
the area where the editor and command window tabs appear so that one is 
above the other?  If either is detached, then I think it is fine to 
leave them alone as presumably the user has arranged them in some way.

> The directory in octave has to be set to the one of the script opened in
> the editor if the breakpoints are set in the editor. Maybe this can be
> done by just setting the directory before calling dpstop.

I think this problem is not limited to the GUI.  The debugger is 
currently limited to setting breakpoints using only a function name. 
The file found then depends in some way on the symbol table.  It should 
probably be possible to set a breakpoint in a file directly.

> The debugger marker (yellow arrow) is not deleted when the script is
> continued.
>
> When continuing from the editor menu (or the toolbar) the script is not
> continued before I hit return at the debug>  prompt. This bug already
> existed before and is not related to your changes (s. bug #38319).

OK, I'll check these out.

Thanks,

jwe