[webkit-dev] Debugging inspector injected scripts

[Vivek Galatage]

Yeah sure.. I will follow the respective procedures to get this working.

Thank you for the right pointers.

Vivek

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Pavel Feldman <pfeldman at chromium.org>wrote:

> devtools_frontend.zip is a quick and dirty way of hacking the front-end
> without the need to fetch and build WebKit or Chrome. If you'd like to
> apply changes to the backend (.cpp files), you need to follow WebKit (or
> Chromium) build instructions.
>
> Regards
> Pavel
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Vivek Galatage <vivekgalatage at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Pavel,
>>
>> I have one question regarding the webkit trunk and these inspector
>> related changes.
>>
>> So as per the link, I downloaded the chromium continuous build archive
>> and then followed the instructions to setup the frontend code for debugging.
>>
>> Can I achieve the same thing with webkit trunk build instead of
>> downloading the chromium archive? As I would like to make changes in the
>> inspector backend (.cpp changes) so how can I proceed with this? So do I
>> need to build the webkit trunk for chromium port to get this working?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Vivek
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Vivek Galatage <vivekgalatage at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you Pavel and Konrad for your help.
>>>
>>> I followed the below link and was able to achieve the debugging the
>>> inspector script.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Vivek
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Pavel Feldman <pfeldman at chromium.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> See http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/contributing.html for
>>>> more info.
>>>>
>>>> Pavel
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Konrad Piascik <kpiascik at rim.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Ok, well I was only able to do this on chrome. I have heard of issues
>>>> with
>>>> > Qt and debugging the inspector. The possible reason for your
>>>> inability to
>>>> > debug may be their sub event loop. Can any Qt developers comment?
>>>> > Konrad
>>>> > Sent from my BlackBerry on the Rogers Wireless Network
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > From: Vivek Galatage [mailto:vivekgalatage at gmail.com]
>>>> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 08:32 AM
>>>> > To: Konrad Piascik
>>>> > Cc: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org>
>>>> > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Debugging inspector injected scripts
>>>> >
>>>> > Hi Konrad,
>>>> >
>>>> > Thank you for your reply.
>>>> >
>>>> > Yes as you pointed out, I have tried this but was unable to do any
>>>> live
>>>> > debugging of the javascript from inspector( such as ResourcesPanel.js
>>>> etc ).
>>>> >
>>>> > I am able to inspect the inspector but debugging the script is what I
>>>> am
>>>> > looking forward to..
>>>> >
>>>> > I am working on webkit trunk revision 112378 on Qt port on ubuntu
>>>> 11.10 as
>>>> > well as on Windows port.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thank you,
>>>> > Vivek
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Konrad Piascik <kpiascik at rim.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hi Vivek,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> You can use the inspector to inspect itself. I've done this on
>>>> chrome many
>>>> >> times using the keyboard shortcut ctrl+shift+c (win & linux) or
>>>> >> command+shift+c (mac). In order for the keyboard shortcut to work
>>>> you need
>>>> >> to have the inspector undocked and the focus of the inspector be on
>>>> the
>>>> >> panel icons.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hope this helps you achieve what you're looking to do.
>>>> >> Konrad
>>>> >> Sent from my BlackBerry on the Rogers Wireless Network
>>>> >>
>>>> >> From: Vivek Galatage [mailto:vivekgalatage at gmail.com]
>>>> >> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 07:23 AM
>>>> >> To: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org>
>>>> >> Subject: [webkit-dev] Debugging inspector injected scripts
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hello webkit-dev,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I would like to debug the various scripts those are injected by
>>>> inspector
>>>> >> component.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Lets say I load a page from xyz.com which has some script named
>>>> xyz.js.. I
>>>> >> am able to put breakpoints in this xyz.js and do the normal
>>>> debugging.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> But what I am interested in is debugging the inspector injected
>>>> scripts
>>>> >> such as ResorucePanel.js etc by putting breakpoints. But whenever I
>>>> try to
>>>> >> do this, the inspector becomes non-responsive and I have to come out
>>>> of the
>>>> >> debug session by closing the browser. This I am experimenting on
>>>> Windows
>>>> >> port.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> So am I doing something wrong or is there any other method to achieve
>>>> >> this? Any help?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thank you,
>>>> >> Vivek
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