This thing randomly stops working all the time for me

midouest / vscode-playdate-debug

Unofficial Playdate debug extension for Visual Studio Code on macOS, Windows and Ubuntu

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=midouest.playdate-debug

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This thing randomly stops working all the time for me #23

Closed jordanbleu closed 1 year ago

jordanbleu commented 1 year ago

It works perfectly fine, but once in a while I'll go click the 'debug file in playdate simulator" and nothing happens at all. Any tips on fixing that? Re-installing doesn't seem to fix the issue, nor does restarting. I'm on MacOS, VSCode v1.69.0. I can build and run the file just fine in the PlayDate SDK CLI.

midouest commented 1 year ago

Thanks for reporting this! I'm not sure what's happening based on your description, and unfortunately I have not been able to reproduce this (VSCode 1.75.1, macOS Ventura 13.2.1, Playdate SDK 1.13.1).

I have a few more questions:

What Playdate SDK version are you using?
If you quit the simulator when this happens, does it work the next time you hit "Debug file in Playdate Simulator"?
Does it happen if you use "Run file in Playdate Simulator" instead of "Debug"?
Are you stopping the previously running debugger before you click "Debug file in Playdate Simulator" again?

You could trying using the tasks.json and launch.json from the basic configuration example instead of using the "Debug file in Playdate Simulator" button. That button is intended to help you get up and running quickly, but I would expect the dedicated task/launch configuration to be a bit more stable.

midouest commented 1 year ago

Also, is there any logging information in the VSCode task console? You should see something like this:

 *  Executing task: Playdate: Build 

Compiling...
> "/Users/me/Developer/PlaydateSDK/bin/pdc" --main -sdkpath "/Users/me/Developer/PlaydateSDK" "/Users/me/Developer/MyGame/source/main.lua" "/Users/me/Developer/MyGame/main.pdx"
 *  Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it. 

 *  Executing task: Playdate: Run 

Starting Playdate Simulator...
> /usr/bin/open -a "/Users/me/Developer/PlaydateSDK/bin/Playdate Simulator.app"
 *  Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

jordanbleu commented 1 year ago

I'm on the latest Playdate SDK, 1.13.1
I have been quitting the simulator, unfortunately still doesn't work
Run does not work either
I am stopping the debugger

I think i may have found a reliable fix though, it seems that if I attach my debugger to some other process it fixes the issue for some reason.

midouest commented 1 year ago

Closing because I cannot reproduce this issue.