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

[P T Withington]

Andre added it!  I think it somehow magically calls out to the browser  
to do the regex work.  Try it.  It works.

On 2008-11-12, at 22:13EST, Henry Minsky wrote:

> Does swf8 really have a RegExp facility?
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> 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
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>> Summary: Add a simple evaluator to the swf8/9 debugger
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>> Bugs Fixed:
>> LPP-7271  swf9: exceptions running debugger in embedded HTML
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>> Technical Reviewer: hminsky (pending)
>> QA Reviewer: a.bargull at intensis.de (pending)
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>> 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.
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>> Tests:
>>   lzc --debug someapp.lzx, load that app directly from your
>>   filesystem, evaluate `canvas.subviews[0]` in the debugger and note
>>   that it works.
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>> Files:
>> M      lps/components/debugger/debugger.lzx
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>> Changeset: http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20081112-ptw-E.tar
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> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com