Ability to view evaluated values for primitives

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A pretty darn cool JavaScript debugger for Brackets

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Ability to view evaluated values for primitives #38

Open OliverJAsh opened 10 years ago

OliverJAsh commented 10 years ago

I love Theseus. But I can't help but feel that it is limited to just displaying information about function execution. I find myself still needing to use breakpoints in order to view the values of my primitives (strings, objects, etc.).

Would it be possible to display information about the various primitives from within Brackets via Theseus? To give you an idea of what I mean, I like how Google Chrome’s Developer Tools do it:

alltom commented 10 years ago

If you're feeling adventurous, I've been playing with ideas for doing this in the probes branch. It adds a check box in the right hand side toolbar for enabling some additional information.

OliverJAsh commented 10 years ago

@alltom I'll take a look. Have you got a screenshot of the WIP before I dive in?

alltom commented 10 years ago

Sure! It's still really rough!

animation of probes prototype

ackalker commented 10 years ago

Wow! looks promising. Do you have plans for adding tooltips with values as an alternative to this too?

alltom commented 10 years ago

Plans, sure. I haven't worked on that specifically yet, though. :)