Category:Debugger Release Notes: Difference between revisions

Added "jandeb_" prefix to all generated JavaScript function names in generated Proxy Auto Config (PAC) files.

Support Microsoft IPV6 extensions in existing PAC files (FindProxyForURLEx function).

Send Client version information to the mainframe: the build and tag number are reported in the MSIR.1077 message.

Physical changes and additions to the Client user interface:

• New Preferences window option:

The new IE Options area and IE Mode drop down menu replace the former Web Browser Options area and Automatically Maintain IE proxy settings option. In addition, IE Mode options are available to invoke automatic creation and maintenance of Proxy Auto Config (PAC) files, which designate the only host URLs the Debugger Client will handle requests for as a proxy server.  

• The Proc Selection page now has Black List filtering to accompany the already existing White List filtering, and your filtering selection now persists over runs of the Client.

Macro and command changes:

New commands:

• disableButton and enableButton commands disable and enable Client button bar buttons, and labelButton lets you replace the label of a button.

• generatePac command restricts the Debugger Client's role as proxy server to handling only Internet Explorer requests for hosts (onlines) specified in debuggerConfig.xml.

• setBlackList and setWhiteList commands let you temporarily override (but not change) the contents of an existing Black List or White List file.

• setIEMode controls whether, and the host URLs for which, the Debugger will serve as the proxy server for users of the Internet Explorer browser.

• setTitle and restoreTitle let you change the title of the Client's main window.

• showIE displays the current IE browser operating mode (the setIEMode setting that is in effect) and displays the current values of IE settings that pertain to the Debugger Client.

• turnOnBlackList, turnOffBlackList, and reloadBlackList are analogous to the already existing turnOnWhiteList, turnOffWhiteList, reloadWhiteList commands.

Changed commands:

• The continueIf and continueMacroIf macro only commands now support expressions.

New Client functions:

• &&currentTitle and &&originalTitle display the current and default titles of the Client main window.

• &&exists tests if a macro variable is defined.

• &&blackOrWhiteList tests whether black list filtering, white list filtering, or neither is in effect.

• &&ieMode returns the setting of the IE Mode option in the Client's Preferences window.

Other changes:

• Documentation added for setting up a Chrome browser as a Client proxy.

• A work folder specification is added as the fourth parameter to a command line Client invocation

Macro and command changes:

• nsLookup command added to aid in debugging setup problems

• Assorted bug fixes.

Physical changes and additions to the Client user interface:

• Status message improvements:
  • Added a display of the value (if ten characters or less) to the message received after a successful "run until variable = value" execution.
  • The macroTrace, mapButton, mapKey, clearButton, and setPreference commands now report after a successful operation (in the Status bar, Console, and Client log).

Macro and command changes:

• New help command options:
  • preference displays the preferences available to users via options of the setPreference command.
  • ignoredFiles displays the Debugger's filtered file types (see step 4).

• New ignoredFileTypeList option of the setPreference command allows on off toggling of file type filtering.

New Client functions:

• &&exists tests if a macro variable is defined.

• &&currentRunningMacro returns the file system path of a currently running macro.

• &&preference returns the current value of a specified Client preference.

Physical changes and additions to the Client user interface:

• Help menu Commands option now displays individual command syntax

• Command line tool now maintains persistent history of commands, reviewable via the keyboard up/down arrow keys

• macroTrace processing log now shows syntax help if commands have syntax errors

• Watch Window color panel option (Out of Scope) for Watch Window items not in code in currently active tab (Source Code or Daemon).

• Degree of transparency of windows is now user settable

• Search box widened for "Hide Lower" mode

• Selecting Add Watch (from context menu for a Source Code line) automatically opens external Watch Window if Client in "Hide Lower" mode

• Support master thread and daemon thread interaction (ReturnToDaemon method/Continue method)

Macro and command changes:

• New commands:
  • setStatusMessage lets you set a message in the Client Status bar
  • unSet deletes macro variables

• <> ("not equal" operator) added to assert command

• Argument added to help command to display help for a specific command or function

• New Client functions:
  • &&statusMessage returns most recent Client Status bar message
  • &&numberOfLevels returns the number of source levels being debugged
  • &&amDaemon returns 1 if debugging a daemon, or 0 if not
  • &&selectedTab returns label of selected main window tab, or if none

Physical changes and additions to the Client user interface:

• New Help menu option (Functions) to display Client functions

• Search and Watch Window controls display at bottom of main window when in "Hide Lower" mode

Macro and command changes:

• Macro variables now allowed as arguments to Client functions

• New client functions:
  • &&getMainSearchInputArea
  • &&getVariableOrFieldInputArea
  • &&isWatched
  • &&numberWatched
  • &&numberOfBreakpoints
  • &&sum
  • &&windowStatus
  • String functions:
    • &&concatenate
    • &&index
    • &&length
    • &&substring
    • &&verifyMatch
    • &&verifyNoMatch

• New commands:
  • clearStatus clears current messages from Client Status bar
  • feoDisplay displays current occurrence value in an FEO loop
  • kill stops a running macro (like Kill Running Macro option of Macros menu)
  • reloadLists reloads the Exclude/Include proc/routine lists (see step 2's final bulletpoint)
  • removeCurrentWatch removes currently selected Watch Window item
  • showFunctions displays all the Client functions in alphabetical order

• Command argument of loadWatch and saveWatch allows absolute path name

• New option (valueDisplayOnConsole) of setPreference command to control whether value displays appear in a separate Value window when the Console window is open

• Backslash (\) escape character for searches for strings beginning with an ampersand (&)

• &&arg function now restricted to commands within macros (in previous builds, &&arg could be used outside of a macro, but its results were unpredictable and unreliable)

• Client functions and constants now allowed on continueIf and continueMacroIf

Physical changes and additions to the Client user interface:

• New Preferences window options:
  • Main Button Bar options (Top, Center, Bottom) allow changing the position of the main button bar
  • Main Button Bar option (Extra Buttons) to add extra buttons to the main button bar instead of to a second button bar
  • Main Window Options option (Hide Lower Section) to hide or restore the lower section of the Client main window
  • More Open at Startup options to automatically open external windows at Client startup (for the Watch Window and Audit Trail, Web Buffer, and Execution Trace pages)

• A Step out, Step over, or trace followed by pressing the Enter key launches another step out, step over, or trace if program execution has not completed

• Named buttons may be replaced by separators for visual separation between buttons

• Edit uimore.xml option added to File menu

• Pinned external windows:
  • Context menu options simplify pinning and unpinning  
  • Pin icon in title bar

• Additional StringTokenizer class variables are viewable: CurrentQuoted, CurrentToken, String, and StringLength

Macro and command changes:

• New "global" versions of existing Client functions: &&globalAssertFailureCount, &&globalAssertSuccessCount, and &&globalAssertStatus

• New commands:
  • clearButton removes all mappings from a Client named button
  • clearKey removes all mappings from a Client hot key
  • evaluate builds and runs a Client command
  • hideLower, restoreLower, and toggleLower commands for hiding and restoring the lower section of the Client main window
  • increment and decrement add or subtract 1 from a numeric valued macro variable
  • mainButtonBar positions the main button bar within the Client window
  • mapKey command assigns keyboard shortcuts without requiring a mapping file or Client restart
  • resetGlobalAssertCounts clears counts of new "global" Client functions
  • setBreakpointOnCurrentLine and clearBreakpointOnCurrentLine expand flexibility of the commands for controlling breakpoints
  • Macro only commands:
    • continueMacroIf conditionally processes the macro that contains it
    • includeIf conditionally calls another macro
    • macroWait slows down macro execution