editing a script starting from the debugger

[Morley Chalmers]

I'm running a script with the debugger running. I reach something that needs revision. I click on the Edit Current Script icon on the top right side of the debugger window. I perform the revisions. And then almost always discover I've forgotten to kill the currently script run in the debugger.

Is there a way to prompt FMP's debugger to kill the current script run automatically when I use its Edit Current Script icon? That should surely be its default behaviour. If I edit the script there's surely no point in proceeding further with the current run through the script. Or am I missing something?

Kind regards,

[David Jondreau]

What the default behavior should be is certainly debatable. But what isn't is that you cannot change the behavior of the script debugger.

About half the time I'm editing a script do I want to stop it. If there's an error I fix it then manipulate the running script (using the jump around feature and the set variables in the Data Viewer) to keep it on track.

It's also not that difficult to hit the red X after the Edit script button or simply respond to the error dialog when saving a script that is running.

[Fitch]

Get in the habit of clicking edit, then stop; or hold down the command key and hit F10, then F8 without releasing the command key, that's a quick one-two punch.

You could use a macro utility to combine those into one keyboard command.

[Morley Chalmers]

Get in the habit of clicking edit, then stop; or hold down the command key and hit F10, then F8 without releasing the command key, that's a quick one-two punch.

You could use a macro utility to combine those into one keyboard command.

Thanks. That's a step in the right direction.