Re: [wxlua-users] wxlua watch expression doesn't work

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Milind Gupta <mil...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>      Posting the message again to find out if it is possible to watch value
> of keys inside a table. When I tried that the watch just gives an error
> message saying:    "string:Lua:Syntax error during pre-compilation" ?
>      Just a question, does everybody just use the debug library to debug
> their code in Lua or is there a good graphical debugger that can help. I
> tried Lua Eclipse, it didn't work for me, cannot make Scite work to debug in
> Linux but even in windows its debugging is more command line rather than
> graphical. WxLua seemed to be the only solution that was working good but
> then I encountered this problem?

Sorry about the delay... Yes there is a problem, but also a temporary
fix. Unfortunately the remote debugger expression evaluator does
double duty, a) run code like "a = 1+2" to set a varible in the
debugger Lua state or to get variable values. So, when it finds a '.'
it thinks there is an expression to evaluate not a variable.

The solution, put a watch on these two things:
"a = MyTable.Key" : should say Ok on the value side
"a" : should be the value of MyTable.Key

I just have to find the time to separate the functionality of the two
things so they both work.

Regards,
    John