I'll open a PMR on the first issue.
As you were replying to this message, I was actively in a debug session. With the speeds set to 100ms which should be ten lines per second, the stepping was about three lines per second instead. At times I stop the automatic stepping to analyze some data or make some notes, then resume. This I do multiple times during my debug. At one particular time, when I resumed the automatic stepping, it suddenly picked up speed and was clocking at about seven lines per second with the same settings. (Several times in the past it suddenly picks up and is clocking at ten lines per second based on the settings. I usually use this setting to speed through some code, then stop the animated stepping and use the manual in sections where I want to clearly see after each line what's happening.)
What I also noted is that, between each start and stop of the automated stepping, the stepping speed remained consistent. As there are constant fluctuations going on behind the scenes on the System i, I would expect to see fluctuations in the stepping animation, but I do not. The one constant I have seen of late is that it starts off slow, then something causes it to speed up as I do these stop/start motions. I haven't seen it slow down when it does pick up speed. I will try different microsecond settings and see what happens there, and let you know of my results. I'll be actively debugging today so I should be able to collect some results along the way.
-- Ken
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Hi Ken,
For the first problem, I cannot produce it using RDp 8031 driver. Please open a PMR so we can look more into it. Thanks.
For the automatic stepping problem, since the speed also depends on your client/server machine speed, and also network connection speed, this interval is just a guide line. Could you please try to set it to a lower interval (like 5 per second) to see if the behaviour will be better?
Thanks,
Xuan Chen, Problem Determination Tools for IBM i
(905) 413-3769 T/L 313-3769
xuanchen@xxxxxxxxxx
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The latest update of RDP seems to be working better, but there are a few small issues, primarily with the Debug perspective.
1) In Debug, I used to be able to right click in the Monitors panel and had the option to add a field for monitoring. That option no longer exists. The only way to watch a field is to select it from the LPEX Editor view and add it that way. Sometimes keying in the field is much quicker than searching for it then adding it that way. In fact I still see the + sign icon but it is always unselectable.
2) Also in Debug, on the Breakpoints panel, there was never a + sign to begin with. But there you can right click and add a breakpoint for line or watch.
3) I know I've complained about this before and there wasn't much that could be done then, but the animated stepping speed is still inconsistent.
It's set at 100ms so it should step through ten lines per second, but is stepping at a whopping speed of two lines per second. And then sometimes it suddenly takes off and does step as fast as I set it. I disabled as many panels as I didn't need, but that didn't seem to clear it up. (Almost like that Snickers commercial with Ozzy Osbourne saying "I just don't feel like it"...lol) Still think there's something there, but this time I will ask the community if they've noted this issue (for those who have used this feature).
4) Still have the issue where suddenly when in the animated stepping speed mode, the LPEX Editor stops updating which line it's on. The Debug panel then starts flashing as if it's updating the debug stack every step (most steps it doesn't), and even the font of the Debug label on the panel briefly becomes italicized between each step (weird). Fortunately I got this behavior to stop when I changed the Layout option from Automatic to Breadcrumb, at least for now.
Otherwise it's performing much better this version.
-- Ken
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