Thank you for Break On Exceptions

Script Debugger
#1

I do an awful lot of editing and debugging of other people’s code and need all the help I can get.

In SD it is easy to overlook the Break On Exceptions item in the Script menu. With this item enabled in Debugging Mode, a script will stop directly on a handled error within a try statement, reporting both the location and the error message (as if it was not handled). This is extremely useful for debugging complex scripts.

So just a word of thanks. This little feature has saved me so much time over the years.

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#2

Ray, thanks for sharing this tip.
I was one of those who had overlooked this powerful feature.

And thanks to @alldritt for providing this cool feature.

#3

I’m glad to hear you are using this feature. Its one of those things which is incredibly difficult to describe and for which people don’t see a purpose until they need to solve the exact problem it solves.

#4

It’s especially handy when you have an error-handler that prevents Script Debugger from stopping on the exception.

I know it took me quite a while, before I began to use this feature habitually – but when I did I gave it a keyboard shortcut Go-To status.

-Chris