On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:10 PM, kengbrown <kbrown at mac.com> wrote:

> --- In squeak at yahoogroups.com, Bert Freudenberg <bert at ...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 09.04.2008, at 13:19, kengbrown wrote:
> > > --- In squeak at yahoogroups.com, Bert Freudenberg <bert@> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 09.04.2008, at 12:03, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Am 09.04.2008 um 18:59 schrieb Ken G. Brown:
> > >>>
> > >>>> One thing that really bothered me when first starting out with
> > >>>> Squeak, was the requirement for modifying code in order add 'self
> > >>>> halt' to work with the debugger.
> > >>>> I still find that to be bothersome. Intuitively it seems to me that
> > >>>> breakpoints should have no way to modify code.
> > >>>>
> > >>> Yes, that is a point that annoys me, too.
> > >>> Even Dolphin Smalltalk has this drawback, but there is a
> > >>> sophisticated solution in Tools+ (by Solutions Software) called
> > >>> Method Spies.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Actually, Squeak has break points. Click on a method in the system
> > >> browser, and choose "toggle break on entry".
> > >>
> > >> Problem is the highlighting in the method list has been broken for
> > >> some while, methods with break points used to be marked.
> > >>
> > >> - Bert -
> > >>
> > >
> > > Well, 'toggle breakpoint on entry' also seems to be missing from the
> > > default System
> > > Browser in latest 3.10 dev image too. And there isn't any World
> > > menu selection to open
> > > the regular System Browser that has it. You can overcome that by
> > > doing 'Browser open' in
> > > a Workspace to get the 'toggle breakpoint on entry' at which point
> > > you have two different
> > > browsers with the same title, with different functionality.
> > >
> > > Wonder what the rationale is for the inconsistency in Browser types
> > > vs naming?
> > >
> > > In any case, it would be nice to be able to set a breakpoint on a
> > > method whilst in the
> > > Debugger. Bet you could whip that up in no time Bert! :)
> >
> >
> > That is already there. The same "toggle break on entry" menu item is
> > in the debugger's method list.
> >
> > - Bert -
> >
>
> Well I just tried that and I don't seem to get it to do anything.
> eg. OBUBrowser open. , debug it from a Workspace, click 'into', see open
> in the message
> list at the top, do 'toggle break on entry' when the 'open' line is
> highlighted, start over in
> the debugger or doit from the Workspace again, the operation proceeds to
> completion.
>
> Ken G. Brown


Didn't work for me either in a 3.9 image.
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