[wingide-users] Setting breakpoint in thread

[Wingware Support]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 kimwaic888-wingide at yahoo.com wrote:
> I am working on a multi-threaded program.  I can't get
> WingIDE to recognize breakpoints inside a thread.  It
> lets me set the breakpoint but nothing happens at
> run-time.  Is there any special setting I need?

Unfortunately, the debugger doesn't currently support debugging more 
than one thread at a time.  Only the first thread started will be 
debugged.

It's possible to debug a single thread by importing wingdbstub instead 
of initiating the debug process from the IDE.  Debugging is then on 
the thread that first does the import, although the usefulness of this 
depends on how you're using threads in your code.  Launching debug 
code from outside the IDE is described here:

http://wingware.com/doc/debug/debugging-externally-launched-code

Stephan Deibel

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