Debugging JavaFX

[Kevin Rushforth]

Mainly size. Generally if a developer is going to debug JavaFX to point 
of wanting to look at local variables, it doesn't seem a stretch for 
them to build JavaFX.

-- Kevin


On 7/17/2019 9:57 AM, Tom Schindl wrote:
> so what is the reason to strip them (i guess it it size) it is extremely
> painful to don't see local-variables, have parameter names, arg1,arg2, ... .
>
> Tom
>
> On 17.07.19 17:01, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>> When you say that don't see a problem, what exactly do you mean? If you
>> are able to see the local variables in a production build, then that
>> would in fact be surprising. The production builds, including EA builds,
>> should be being built with "-PCONF=Release" which would exclude vars.
>> Someone from Gluon should confirm.
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>
>>
>> On 7/17/2019 7:56 AM, Michael Paus wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I don't see any problem of that kind with Eclipse, on MacOS, JavaFX
>>> 13-ea 9 via Maven.
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> Am 17.07.19 um 16:45 schrieb Kevin Rushforth:
>>>> That should have been enough to enable local variable symbols. We
>>>> have the following logic for JavaCompile tasks:
>>>>
>>>>          compile.options.debugOptions.debugLevel = IS_DEBUG_JAVA ?
>>>> "source,lines,vars" : "source,lines"
>>>>
>>>> IS_DEBUG_JAVA is true if CONF is either Debug or DebugNative.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe something else is stripping out the symbols.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else debugged JavaFX recently and tried to look at local
>>>> vars? If not, I'll take a quick look later today.
>>>>
>>>> -- Kevin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/17/2019 7:38 AM, Robert Lichtenberger wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to get to the bottom of some weird layout problems in my
>>>>> application.
>>>>>
>>>>> To that end I want/need to debug JavaFX classes.
>>>>>
>>>>> But when I step into JavaFX classes I don't see local variables or
>>>>> parameter names.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I thought debug symbols are probably stripped from the official
>>>>> builds.
>>>>>
>>>>> I rolled my own and tried
>>>>>
>>>>>       CONF = Debug
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>>>       CONF = DebugNative
>>>>>
>>>>> in gradle.properties, recompiled OpenJFX and integrated the libraries
>>>>> into a little eclipse testproject.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I still don't see parameter names or local variables.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there something else I need to do in order to see them?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Robert
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>