738970 - Make scope chains inspectable

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Debugger, enhancement, P5)

Description

[David Bruant]

I think it'd be interesting, when stopped at a breakpoint, to have a visual representation of nested function lexical environments.
Currently, Firebug provides a list visualization of function environments. It would be nice to have something more visual. Maybe something close to what is done for bug 738968.

Comment 1

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

possibly. This could be an interesting experiment or addon.

Comment 2

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Agreed. We discussed something similar during jimb's talk last week.

Comment 3

[David Bruant]

By the way, are there slides or a write-up or anything about jimb's talk?
The information I know about the new debugger API is the MDN documentation and I don't know how up-to-date it is.

Comment 4

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

(In reply to David Bruant from comment #3)
> By the way, are there slides or a write-up or anything about jimb's talk?
> The information I know about the new debugger API is the MDN documentation
> and I don't know how up-to-date it is.

I don't think slides are available yet, but I don't believe they would be of much use without Jim's oral comments. The definitive guide is in the wiki:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Debugger