883213 - Implement a more obvious way of jumping between stack frames

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 905981

(DevTools :: Debugger, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

In debug mode there should be a way to jump around stack frames. According to dcamp there is a UI for that, but I failed to find it even though I really tried, in the end I had to open chrome to do debug whatever I was debugging.

Don't know if that's just me, but if there is one confused being probably there will be others. I'd suggest to do something with a UX to make it more discoverable.

Comment 1

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

To be more clear after I was pointed to UI for jumping between stack frames I did like it, it's just it was hard to discover it (I actually tried couple of times before asking :)

Comment 2

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

Once you're paused, you get the stackframes displayed as breadcrumbs in the debugger's toolbar. Just click on a breadcrumb to jump to a different frame. You can right click on the breadcrumbs to get a classic vertical presentation. What would you suggest be done differently? (having them displayed vertically by default takes up a lot of space)

Comment 3

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

Mid-air!

Comment 4

[Girish Sharma [:Optimizer]]

Just a question here to analyze things : When you hit a breakpoint, you must have notices some extra UI elements appear on the toolbar, left to the searchbox.

Did you notice them clearly ?

If not, then where were you looking for the stacks ?

If yes, then what did you think those arrows/breadcrumbs were ?
Did you try to click them ?