VS Arduino - Compiler Error in breakpoints

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Dennis Hill Junior Member Developer Offline Posts: 20 Location: US Joined: Mar 24^th, 2013	Compiler Error in breakpoints Mar 26^th, 2013 at 5:53pm	Print Post
	Would it be possible to add {variable} checking inside the break-point declarations? A typo inside the "When Breakpoint is Hit" - "Print Message" should create an error and not allow the dialog box to close. I miss typed a name of a variable in the print message declaration and the compiler raised an error, but it was tough to track down.


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Marius Developer Offline Posts: 204 Location: Centurion RSA Joined: Sep 7^th, 2011	Re: Compiler Error in breakpoints Reply #1 - Mar 26^th, 2013 at 6:03pm	Print Post
	Tim might have to answer this one but I would think it will be a problem to detect a variable problem like yours. The breakpoint stuff is some code that is included in your sketch that allows VM to send the variable data over the serial link. I dont think the actual source code is scanned by VM to make sure that variable is correct.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Compiler Error in breakpoints Reply #2 - Mar 26^th, 2013 at 8:30pm	Print Post
	I've been trying to find a way to handle this. The dialogs are std vs cpp dialogs not vm dialogs and they don't have the syntax checking options. Also vs only provides source API for global variables and not local variables so we need some very clever. Oops


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Marius Developer Offline Posts: 204 Location: Centurion RSA Joined: Sep 7^th, 2011	Re: Compiler Error in breakpoints Reply #3 - Mar 26^th, 2013 at 8:54pm	Print Post
	Dennis, I have a problem typing letters the wrong way round in words. So for me copy and paste is master. Hence I dont have the problem to often.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Compiler Error in breakpoints Reply #4 - Mar 26^th, 2013 at 9:34pm	Print Post
	Me too I've been thinking of adding a toolwindow to show a list of breakpoints and their properties. This would allow for more breakpoint properties relevant to arduino. Its easier to copy and paste to a tool window and it might make the condition more visible Better error handling showing injected conditions for any error lines of a debug compile would also help


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Dennis Hill Junior Member Developer Offline Posts: 20 Location: US Joined: Mar 24^th, 2013	Re: Compiler Error in breakpoints Reply #5 - Mar 26^th, 2013 at 11:12pm	Print Post
	Thanks for the fast replies; now that I have done it I doubt it will happen again too soon. At least I'll have an idea where to look first. I didn't think it would be hard to validate the variables in the break-point before the compiler catches it. Thanks


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