debugging

Modifying an old Windows program not to call exit after a keypress without source access

I have an older C++ Windows program that I've been asked to get run in a kiosk style environment for a student project. From the main menu, hitting ESC will exit the program, which is undesirable. In ye olden days I would have trapped the keyboard interrupt or whatever and dug around to NOOP whatever JMP or CALL was getting referenced in...

how to see my managed objects on the stack?

I use SOS.dll in VisualStudio to debug my C# program. The program is as below. The debug command is !DumpStackObjects. class Program { static void Main() { Int32 result = f(1); } static Int32 f(Int32 i) { Int32 j = i + 1; return j; <===========BreakPoint is here } } After I...

Android: How to track down the origin of a InflateException?

While starting my application I get the following warning in Logcat: 04-09 10:28:17.830: WARN/WindowManager(52): Exception when adding starting window 04-09 10:28:17.830: WARN/WindowManager(52): android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #24: Error inflating class <unknown> 04-09 10:28:17.830: WARN/WindowManager(52): at and...

Disable Eventlogging for some events using Healthmonitoring

I'm using basic healthmonitoring in an ASP.Net website. I'd like to prevent one event with a specific eventcode to appear in the eventlog. All other errors should be logged accordingly. I'd like to accomplish this using plain web.config settings. However I am unable to get it to work. Besides that, using IIS 5 on Windows XP does not w...

How the software company manages different version of Programs?

Most of the software company have old software which continue maintain, and they also develop current / new software. How they manage different versions of program? Is there any tools to help developers maintain software version? thz ...

asp.net web app - writing data to access or error logs?

I'm looking for a quick way to log some data - I seem to remember a way to write to the access log, similar to System.Out.Println() but I can't seem to remember how to do it. I can't attach a debugger, nor can I add additional information to the web app via Response.Write(). Is there a simple way - a single statement with no configurat...

Is there a way to see what's manipulating a HTML Node?

Breakpoints are great when one knows where the code is being executed. However, I have a problem where my DIV is being manipulated by some unknown code in a library I'm using. Is there a way to basically set a breakpoint on the node and see when children are added or attributes changed? ...

Python: Getting the attribute name that the created object will be given

Before I ask this, do note: I want this for debugging purposes. I know that this is going to be some bad black magic, but I want to use it just during debugging so I could identify my objects more easily. It's like this. I have some object from class A that creates a few B instances as attributes: class A(object): def __init__(self...

VS2008 ASP.net Where are .PDB created?

I have a website in vs2008. I cannot find my .pdb files anywhere after I build. My build configuration is set to debug. <compilation debug="true"> is in the web config. Where is my .pdb? There is nothing in my app_code or bin folder. How do I generate these files? ...

Cross version line matching.

I'm considering how to do automatic bug tracking and as part of that I'm wondering what is available to match source code line numbers (or more accurate numbers mapped from instruction pointers via something like addr2line) in one version of a program to the same line in another. (Assume everything is in some kind of source control and i...

A better python property decorator

I've inherited some python code that contains a rather cryptic decorator. This decorator sets properties in classes all over the project. The problem is that this I have traced my debugging problems to this decorator. Seems it "fubars" all debuggers I've tried and trying to speed up the code with psyco breaks everthing. (Seems psyco and ...

How to more effectively debug PHP code in the vein JavaScript with Firebug or XCode?

Hi everyone, I'm kind of a newbie with PHP so please bear with me. I would like to know if there was an effective way of debugging PHP code so that I don't have to have debugging messages display on the browser. For example, I find var_dump and print_r functions to be excellent for debugging variables, function calls and arrays respect...

IE8 is subtracting wrong in JavaScript / jQuery?

In every browser, Win/Mac, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, IE6, and IE7 they ALL get the following console output: 352 254 But in IE8 I get: 414 434 454 474 Here is my JS/jQuery code: $('#top-breadcrumbs').children('a').each(function(i){ if(!$(this).hasClass('permanent')){ if(permItemWidth+rmItemWidth > $('#top-bread...

Low level qemu based debugging

I've to test some low level code on an ARM architecture. Typically experimentation is quite complicated on the real board, so I was thinking about QEMU. What I'd like to get is some kind of debugging information like printfs or gdb. I know that this is simple with linux since it implements both the device driver for the QEMU Integrator ...

wrong operator() overload called

okay, I am writing a matrix class and have overloaded the function call operator twice. The core of the matrix is a 2D double array. I am using the MinGW GCC compiler called from a windows console. the first overload is meant to return a double from the array (for viewing an element). the second overload is meant to return a reference ...

How is debugger variable content displayed implemented.

I was wondering how to implement the debuggger mouse over display functionality, U know when u have set a breakpoint in a degugger, say in VS and you hover over a variable and the context is displayed. I'm curious as to how that would be implemented? Bob. ...

How do I use Logging in the Django Debug Toolbar?

I would like to output debug messages in my django app at different points in a view function. The docs for the django-debug-toolbar say it uses the build in python logging but I can't find any more information then that. I don't really want to log to a file but to the info pane on the toolbar. How does this work? ...

Debug the PHP interpreter with GDB.

I would like to use GDB to step though the C++ code that makes up the php.so Apache extension. I want to see what PHP is doing while it's running a PHP application. Preferably I would use an IDE like Netbeans or Eclipse on a LAMP system. ...

What's going on with "expected specifier-qualifier-list" error

It is my GameEngine.h: #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> #import "GameArray.h"; @interface GameEngine : NSObject { GameArray *gameButtonsArray; } @property (nonatomic, retain) GameArray *gameButtonsArray; And this is my GameArray.h: #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> #import "MyAppDelegate.h"; @interface GameArray : NSObject {...

How can I find out what is stopping my object from disposing properly?

I have a rather large and complex game in C#, and in it are various monsters. The monsters are created in the game by a MonsterCreator, and each monster has various plugins that are loaded from external DLLs. When my monsters die, they call a method in the MonsterCreator, and the MonsterCreator removes them from the game map, removes th...