Chapter 4.  Client Reference

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The Program menu
The Control menu
The Get menu
The Watch menu
The Breakpoint menu
Th Bookmark menu
The Log menu
The Help menu

The client has four major areas, in the top there is the menu and toolbar where the debugging is controlled.

To the left, there is a tree view wih variables and watches. To the right of the watch tree, is he source code pane where the sources of the scripts are shown.

At the bottom is a tab control with a log of whats happening (warnings and errors will be logged here), a view of the current breakpoints and a backtrace view.

The Program menu

Program-> Open source file... (Ctrl-O)

Opens a file selector dialog where you can open a source file. Gubed brings up the source files from the server as it needs to, but sometimes you want to do it manually to set a breakpoint before you launch the script.

Program-> Close current file (Ctrl-W)

Closes the current (visible) script source.

Program-> Connect

If the proxy is not being used, this action makes the client start listening for connectios. This happens automatically at startup, but should the port be occupied by other software, you can try to start listening again with this action.

When the proxy is used, this action tries to connect to the proxy.

Program-> Disconnect (Ctrl-N)

Disconnects from the proxy

Program-> Settings (Ctrl-Shift-O)

This brings up the settings dialog.

Program-> Quit (Ctrl-Q)

Quits the client