Sadly there isn't a lot new that I can post since I've hardly had time to work on my pet project during the last week - a few friends from Texas and California came over for the Oktoberfest and it suffices to say that I drank a lot of beer last week.
Nonetheless there is some progress and I've finished support for stepping in break mode (although I still have no idea what enum_STEPKIND.STEP_BACKWARDS is about, since I've never heard of stepping backwards before).
There is no screenshot this time because you wouldn't really see a difference, except if I did, before/after screenshots to show that the stepping works.
A few coding notes as always:
- The current TorqueScript telnet debugger doesn't really tell you whether it breaks because of stepping or because it has hit a breakpoint, so I have to figure it myself. It is pretty straightforward though because stepping usually implies a certain callstack change (or the lack thereof) when finished:
- "Step Into" implies that the new callstack height > old height
- "Step Over" implies no change
- "Step Out" implies of course: new callstack height < old height
So it's pretty easy to figure out whether the stepping was finished or interrupted by a breakpoint.
- The class diagram designer/viewer in Visual Studio 200x is awesome. If you haven't tried it, you've missed a really helpful feature of Visual Studio.
Lately I've been using it to comment my public functions and parameters, etc. and for small refactorings (like name changes) in general.
Last but not least I think I've written a neat communication class for synchronous and asynchronous message processing which I'd like to share (if you're going to use it though, please tell me and/or send me some feedback):