Unfortunately I am finding that the LS debugger in Beta 2 is basically unusable.
The panel starts blank. Clicking around a bit reveals some of the buttons, but they overlap other controls. Clicking around some more reveals the lower-panel tabs, and stepping through the code allows me to see some of the lines in the lower panel.
But after a few uses, even this behavior stops. Eventually the debugger becomes entirely useless and I have to re-start Notes
I realize you have already identified these issues, but this is really bad.
I have attached some screen shots in PDF form for your review. I hope this gets fixed ASAP.
It’s a show-stopper for me; I have to roll back to 8.0.2.
Yes, we know it’s got significant problems in the beta. We’ve made some fixes since then and it’s going to be much better when we release. Not perfect, but certainly usable. Even if it were working perfectly, I’d like to totally replace it with something better; not sure when that might happen. I really miss some of the modern debugger features like setting breakpoints on variable change, hovering over something to see what its value is, and so on.
Meanwhile, there are also alternate debugging techniques such as are described in article Debugging Domino Applications part 1 and part 2.