B4R Question How to debug program code?

[amorosik]

How do you go about debugging a program?
By 'debug' I mean:
- display program variables
- set breakpoints
- advance the code step-by-step

 

[thetahsk]

How do you go about debugging a program?
By 'debug' I mean:
- display program variables
- set breakpoints
- advance the code step-by-step

Goto in your Project Folder and select the Objects\src folder. Start Visual Studio with installed Visual Micro Plug-In. Start new project and import the code
src.ino from B4R. Compile with debug information and set your breakpoints. As you know the B4R toolchain generates C++ code. It's not easy to debug but
sometimes it helps.

 

[klaus]

Without the procedure above you, which I did not know, can only use Logs.
You cannot set breakpoints nor advance the code step-by-step.

 

[amorosik]

Goto in your Project Folder and select the Objects\src folder. Start Visual Studio with installed Visual Micro Plug-In. Start new project and import the code
src.ino from B4R. Compile with debug information and set your breakpoints. As you know the B4R toolchain generates C++ code. It's not easy to debug but
sometimes it helps.

Yes, thanks, I know the Visual Studio + Visual Micro procedure
My question was about understanding how to debug using the B4R environment
What I wanted to say is that I see that with the other B4A and B4J environments it is possible to perform the classic debugging
I wanted to understand if it was I who could not find a way to do it even with B4R or if the development environment does not allow it

 

[amorosik]

Without the procedure above you, which I did not know, can only use Logs.
You cannot set breakpoints nor advance the code step-by-step.

Okay, now it's clear
Thank you

 

[amorosik]

Maybe Massimo Banzi heard us when we were discussing the need for a serious debugging system
Version 2.0 of original Arduino Ide, features the long-awaited LIVE DEBUGGER

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[hatzisn]

Maybe Massimo Banzi heard us when we were discussing the need for a serious debugging system
Version 2.0 of original Arduino Ide, features the long-awaited LIVE DEBUGGER

?????????????????????

That's great. Pitty for me that none of the boards that I have can work with it. Since it is based on the cli version, I suppose that @Erel can take advantage of it for the given boards (and the boards to come) in B4R to add Debug capabilities in B4R. I do not know about the others but I would be willing to pay a minor yearly fee (or a donation) for B4R if we could take advantage of such environment because the Log(".....") is not always the perfect way to debug.

 

[Daestrum]

You can 'sort of' integrate the GDB debugger in the IDE, but it still needs a lot of faffing around to be useful - been trying it on an 8266 with a little wrapper for the GDBStub file.

 

[Erel]

The whole purpose of this thread was to promote a different development tool.
Just last month the OP made a feature request about this topic: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...ogram-variable-view-cpu-register-view.127882/

I don't understand this approach. If you want to use a different tool then use a different tool. Why promote it here?