[Dltk-dev] Breakpoint and dbgp question

[Christian Thillemann <christianthillemann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Sorry for disturbing you, but we really hope that you can give a little 
help to move on from a bit of a standstill…

We are two students at Aarhus University and Engineering College of 
Aarhus currently working on our master thesis in software engineering. 
As part of our thesis we are integrating VDM with Eclipse. We are 
currently trying to get the debugging features up and running. The 
project is part of the Overture initiative, for more information you can 
visit: http://www.overturetool.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

We are using the debug protocol; DBGP and the dynamic language toolkit; 
DLTK. We’ve been looking at the org.eclipse.dltk.javascript and 
org.eclipse.dltk.ruby projects and even though we sometimes could wish 
for a bit more documentation, we are steadily moving in the right direction.

The reason we write to you is to kindly ask whether you have a piece of 
advice concerning the breakpoint functionality. We can add breakpoints 
in the editor, but it seems that the IDE doesn’t send the 
*breakpoint_set* command to the debugger engine.

In other words it seems like we have only implemented the UI 
functionality to add breakpoints in the editor, but not the actual 
features to make the machinery work…

We do realize that you properly aren’t able to tell us exactly where the 
problem lies, but can you give us a hint towards what project we might 
get some inspiration from and what extensions we want to look at.


And while we at it; we have another minor question: In our dbgp server 
part we what to access all source files in the project. How are these 
files or file paths obtained in the smartest way? We considered creating 
a new XML-file with the filenames and send the path to it in the 
arguments, this however doesn't strike us as the most elegant approach...


Thanks in advance

Cheers David Møller & Christian Thillemann