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tproper

So, I'm having some trouble with both Gideros Studio and ZeroBrane. Gideros doesn't seem to allow breakpoints on classes that are not in the main.lua file. ZeroBrane has trouble launching the Gideros Player about 8 times out of 10.

Is there any way to use Visual Studio Code.

Right now, I'm writing in ZeroBrane and then clicking Launch on Gideros Player, which works fine but, like I said, the Gideros Studio debugger seems weak.

Am I just not using something correctly? On and I'm on a MAC. ZeroBrane doesn't have problems launching on Windows, although I haven't gotten to far to see if the debugging works well. I don't have access to a Windows computer that often.

Thanks for your help!

keszegh

i'm using zbs on windows with no problems. perhaps there is some network issue causing time out on your mac? you can ask about this issue also the creator of zerobrane, @paulclinger , he is usually very helpful.

Apollo14

Some people use Visual Studio, maybe it's good (I didn't try it).

simwhi

I have issues with zbs, too. Make sure Gideros Studio isn't open when launching the player from zbs.

antix

I'm also a ZeroBrane user and I get the 'failed to start player' thing once about every couple of hundred runs. Like @simwhi said.. make sure Gideros Studio isn't running at the same time or it will mostly fail from ZeroBrane.

If you are using ZeroBrane then you are really only loading Gideros Studio to add resources, or export.

tproper

Thanks everyone! I've been just writing in VSCode and ZeroBrane and running in Gideros Studio. I'll try running the player on my MAC without Gideros Studio running soon.

Been doing debugging mainly by printing which is really crude but I haven't gotten into too many buggy things yet since I'm still just learning. So far the crash errors have been detailed enough to figure out my bugs.

hgy29

Not being able to break on other files than main.lua is definitely a bug. I experienced it today, and it should really have worked. I will check, probably something was broken in 2018.12

tproper

Alright. I was thinking that was an odd thing. Thanks!

How often does Gideros IDE get updates?

SinisterSoft

Usually around once a month unless something is added that needs a lot of testing. There are sometimes minor releases within the month.

SinisterSoft

If you need to have it earlier then there are full build instructions, I usually test the full build instructions every other month from scratch to make sure they are still accurate.

http://wiki.giderosmobile.com/index.php/Special:MyLanguage/Compiling_Gideros_Source

tproper

Ok. Cool! Thanks!

hgy29

I've trying to debug the breakpoint issue this morning, and while I while stepping through gideros code to understand what happened, it started working as intended without changing a single line of code! Now I am no longer able to reproduce, weird!

tproper

That is weird because it's working for me now too. I'll keep an eye on it and if it happens again maybe I'll see what causes it.

hgy29

As a reminder to myself: a few clues I gathered while stepping through the code before it started working:
- the studio does its job correctly, the problem probably lies in the player code
- the debugger hook was erroneously checking all "line 0" conditions, although I didn't set any breakpoints at that line (obviously since it can't be done)
- I was under the impression that the correct line was actually caught, but not on the right file