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- From: sokoloff@athena.mit.edu (James T Sokoloff)
- Subject: Re: touch & go breakpoints in ThinkC debugger?
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:14:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.183025.4425@leland.Stanford.EDU> dmcannon@leland.Stanford.EDU (David M. Cannon) writes:
- >I don't see any clear reference to touch & go breakpoints in the
- >ThinkC manual debugger section, and I assume that this means that
- >you can't do them. Can anyone confirm or refute this? If there
- >really is no such option, and since I know Think folks monitor
- >this forum, let me make it a suggestion for the next release, major
- >or minor.
- >
- >In case it isn't clear what I mean by a touch & go breakpoint: I
- >would like to see a breakpoint which stops execution of the program,
- >updates the data window in the debugger with the proper information,
- >and then continues program execution. Basically a regular breakpoint
- >except that you don't have to hit a key or move & click the mouse to
- >hit the 'go' button. It would be *very* nice to have when tracking the
- >state of the program during mouse and keyboard activity, among other
- >things, without having to write your own monitoring display.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Dave Cannon
- >dmcannon@sunrise.stanford.edu
- >Center fro Design Research
- >Stanford University
-
- Will using the option key do what you want? (which is documented...)
-
- --Jim Sokoloff
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