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Bring back the integrated debugger

Open codeanticode opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

The integrated debugger is currently disabled due to the changes in the API of the PDE editor in Processing 4:

https://github.com/processing/processing-android/blob/master/mode/src/processing/mode/android/AndroidEditor.java#L88

codeanticode avatar Apr 19 '22 00:04 codeanticode

Some progress has been made here - https://github.com/processing/processing-android/compare/master...rupeshkumar22:processing-android:debuggerImprovements

The above changes were not sufficient to make it run, adding android:debuggable="true" in the AndroidManifest.xml before running the sketch on the emulator was essential to resolve an issue mentioned here - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18893656/application-is-waiting-for-the-debugger-to-attach

For now, Debugger seems to be working fine- DebuggerUpAndRunning

I need some information to test the working of the debugger. Is there any documentation available to test the debugger's functionality? @codeanticode @ranaaditya Thanks!

rupeshkumar22 avatar Aug 13 '22 01:08 rupeshkumar22

@codeanticode @ranaaditya I am looking for versions of Android Mode and processing 3 in which the debugger was stable and working well last time when @manav-mj contributed. Do you remember the versions @codeanticode ? I am able to launch and run the debugger but some null pointer exceptions were faced when trying to use Continue, Step buttons. Comparing the changes from the stable debugger branch would be helpful. Currently, I'm going through commit #491 to understand the debugger workflow.

rupeshkumar22 avatar Aug 24 '22 16:08 rupeshkumar22

The debugger should work with version 4.3.0 of the Android mode and version 3.5.4 of Processing.

codeanticode avatar Aug 29 '22 02:08 codeanticode

Thanks for informing the versions @codeanticode A recent catch-up with @ranaaditya has been helpful to understand the debugger and some other functionalities. I've reached a stage where AndroidDebugger's step, continue and other button functionalities are working fine. For variable-value window data reflection, we have started using VariableInspector.java in processing4. I have integrated the use of the VariableInspector in the debugger but data is not being reflected in the variable-value window for some reasons. I'm looking into it. Probably, I'll find a solution for the same. Thanks

rupeshkumar22 avatar Aug 29 '22 03:08 rupeshkumar22

Solved with https://github.com/processing/processing-android/pull/711

codeanticode avatar Sep 26 '22 01:09 codeanticode