Debug Perspective

The Debug perspective is designed to make it easy to locate and correct problems in IDL code using code breakpoints and a view of the IDL interpreter's execution stack.

Figure 16-3: The Debug Perspective

Views Included in the Debug Perspective

By default, the Debug perspective includes the following views:

When to Use the Debug Perspective

You might find the Debug perspective most useful when you are working on the following types of tasks:

You want to temporarily halt execution of your code using breakpoints.

You want to follow the IDL interpreter's progress through multiple routines that call each other (a call stack).

For more detail about workflows and how to use this perspective, see Debugging Tools.