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Advice for setting up a debugger for a particular implementation of Javascript? (ImageJ) (self.learn_programming)
submitted 1 year ago by qwamqwamqwam to c/[email protected]
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Hi! I’m a self-taught novice programmer trying to write a macro in javascript for ImageJ. I’ve built a program that I think works, but trying to debug it without a proper debugger has been hell. I’m a hair away from just giving up and rewriting the whole thing in the program’s native macro language. I looked online and it seems like I should be able to set up a debugging environment in Visual Studio Code, but I couldn’t find any guide for doing that specifically for ImageJ. I use Visual Studio Code to write my javascript, but any advice on any platform or even just what I need to find to get started would be helpful. Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What makes you think the macro works? What are you debugging if there are no bugs that you've identified?

[–] qwamqwamqwam 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Trust me, I'm far from the delusion that I can write a program that does the things I want it to on the first try haha. By "I think it works" I mean that the code is to the point where at least visually I can't detect any obvious issues and VSC isn't throwing up any red flags, either. But when I try to run the program, it throws an error message and a line number, which I have to take back to VSC and edit blindly without any view of the variables and context. Swapping back and forth is becoming a huge headache. A debugger, even one as simple as just installing the ImageJ package into VSC(don't know how to do this) and telling me when I'm calling a function wrong, would be massively helpful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks like you can debug Nashorn JavaScript using IntelliJ IDEA

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2014/03/debugger-for-jdk8s-nashorn-javascript-in-intellij-idea-13-1/

[–] qwamqwamqwam 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much! This is incredibly helpful.