New Feature: In-Viewer Debug

[paulisloud]

Hey everyone,

We just pushed out a new release which includes a debugger in the app viewer. Now you can see your live data feeds directly in your apps.

So far only publish and subscribe data is hooked up, but soon we'll be adding runtime errors as well.

To use the new feature, simply hit "Debug" at the bottom of any of your apps. Let us know if you have any feedback or questions.

-Paul

[Gilson_Oguime]

Hi Paul,

Nice feature!

But it looks like we've lost the option of viewing our feeds on the Apps screen. Even selecting my application the ThingStudioMqtt is always the selected connection.

Can you confirm?

Thanks,
Gilson

[paulisloud]

Hi Gilson,

Glad you like it. Another user told us the scrollbar is back on the templates list, are you seeing as well?

Regarding feeds on the apps screen, are you referring to the count of feeds shown in the app summary box, i.e. this: http://screencast.com/t/bNFnnkucYeSs

The connection for the application is a separate issue from viewing feeds. Regarding keeping the connection across applications, I've just tested this, and can confirm that changing apps does indeed change my active connection.

One thing that tripped me up for a minute was I still had the viewer open for the previous app, expecting that that app's connection would have change (obviously a mistake).

Am I understanding your problem correctly?

-Paul

[Gilson_Oguime]

Hi Paul,

You are correct. There should be an App window open that was blocking switching the feeds.

But I still see some inconsistencies, like the publishing feed shown in the app window but not in the Live Feeds Data screen or the debugger screen:

Thanks,
Gilson

[mkarliner]

We're moving the debug screen to the app and removing it completely from the IDE.
That is why you are not seeing the publishing feed in the Viewer, its in a different instance of javascript so data it publishes is not available to the IDE.