[Laszlo-dev] For Review: Change 20081112-ptw-E Summary: Add a simple evaluator to the swf8/9 debugger

[Henry Minsky]

Does swf8 really have a RegExp facility?





On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:54 PM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com> wrote:
> Change 20081112-ptw-E by ptw at dueling-banjos.home on 2008-11-12 21:45:49 EST
>    in /Users/ptw/OpenLaszlo/trunk
>    for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk
>
> Summary: Add a simple evaluator to the swf8/9 debugger
>
> Bugs Fixed:
> LPP-7271  swf9: exceptions running debugger in embedded HTML
>
> Technical Reviewer: hminsky (pending)
> QA Reviewer: a.bargull at intensis.de (pending)
>
> Details:
>    Added a simple evaluator that can evaluate globals, object member
>    and array index expressions without having to invoke the server
>    compiler (e.g., `canvas.subviews[0]`).  This will allow simple
>    object inspection in the debugger in solo apps or apps deployed
>    without the lps server; it will also speed up the evaluation of
>    such simple expressions as the server will not be invoked to
>    compile them.
>
> Tests:
>    lzc --debug someapp.lzx, load that app directly from your
>    filesystem, evaluate `canvas.subviews[0]` in the debugger and note
>    that it works.
>
> Files:
> M      lps/components/debugger/debugger.lzx
>
> Changeset: http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20081112-ptw-E.tar
>



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Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com