{"id":181,"date":"2008-11-18T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-11-18T19:00:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T03:00:49","slug":"tab-completion-in-the-debugger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/tab-completion-in-the-debugger\/","title":{"rendered":"Tab Completion in the Debugger"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a handy tab completion feature in the OpenLaszlo debugger now. It’s been around for a few months, but I’ve avoided using it mainly because the keyboard focus was a little flaky on my old Windows laptop.<\/p>\n

It works just like a typical Unix (say bash) shell:<\/p>\n

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  1. Recompile your application with the debugger. e.g. browse to the Hello, World!<\/a> example with ?debug=true.<\/li>\n
  2. Click on the Debugger text input field, and begin typing. e.g. can<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Hit tab. The Debugger should complete the word “canvas”.<\/li>\n
  4. Now add a dot, and hit tab once. e.g. canvas.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. If there are too many possible matches, you’ll see output like the following in the Debugger:
    \nINFO: 456 possibilities: press ‘\\t’ again to see them all<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Hit tab again, and you should see a long list of possible properties on canvas:
    \nINFO: Possible completions: $cfn $isstate $lzc$bind_id $lzc$bind_name …<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Now add “sub” to the text input field. It should read canvas.sub<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Hit tab. You should see two possible matches for canvas.sub:
    \nPossible completions: subnodes subviews <\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Add a “v”, so your text input field now says canvas.subv<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. Hit tab. The debugger should complete that to canvas.subviews, since its the only possible match. Now hit the enter key, and the Debugger will inspect canvas.subviews.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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