Time Machine Status Update 4

Another status update for the time-traveling debugger.

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00:00 : so i want to give another quick update
00:04 : on the debugger
00:05 : uh this is the debugger now i added a
00:08 : timeline window
00:10 : okay
00:11 : which is what
00:14 : we saw last time but we last time we
00:16 : just printed it out into the terminal
00:19 : and i saved it to a file
00:21 : at this time it's in a window so you
00:24 : have this timeline
00:27 : and you can
00:29 : you can have it side by side with the
00:32 : code panel
00:34 : so that
00:35 : um so that when you're stepping through
00:38 : the code
00:39 : let me try to have them side by side
00:44 : uh it advances in both
00:47 : windows
00:49 : oh that's cool
00:51 : um yeah
00:53 : so
00:55 : that is yeah that is that you can see
00:58 : over here in the timeline it advances at
01:01 : the same time
01:03 : um
01:04 : 22 000 lies
01:07 : yeah
01:09 : so
01:10 : so here for example uh
01:12 : it's still a bit of a problem that
01:15 : there is just so much timeline
01:18 : that you can't
01:19 : really see the structure that you're
01:22 : inside of
01:24 : um so
01:27 : um i think that like
01:29 : but currently you can sort of infer some
01:34 : of the things as you are jumping around
01:36 : in the code
01:37 : and here
01:39 : for example
01:40 : we're calling this text constructor
01:43 : right
01:44 : and
01:44 : you can see there's three lines that go
01:48 : on inside the text
01:50 : constructor if you look at the timeline
01:52 : right it's nested under the text
01:55 : constructor
01:56 : and then if if i say step over then
01:59 : it'll skip over those lines right
02:03 : and then so it's basically you
02:05 : information like you don't have to step
02:07 : into whatever stuff uh but it will just
02:10 : give you
02:11 : information automatically
02:15 : yeah it's all flattened basically
02:18 : on the timeline everything has been
02:20 : expanded um we don't have to choose that
02:24 : design but uh
02:26 : with this version that's what i chose
02:28 : everything is expanded
02:30 : um
02:32 : but um
02:34 : yeah like the reason i call it timeline
02:36 : is basically it's it's it's got one line
02:40 : for every single line of code that was
02:42 : executed
02:44 : and that's why everything is expanded so
02:47 : if i drill if i drill in then you get
02:50 : into the nested tree
02:54 : and then you step back out you're back
02:56 : out here so
02:58 : i think
03:01 : i think at the moment
03:03 : um
03:05 : it is still a little bit hard because
03:07 : because one thing i cannot do now is to
03:10 : shrink the font size really really small
03:14 : i can't well not that i can't but i i
03:17 : can't do that just for one of the
03:19 : windows let's
03:21 : just put it that way
03:23 : i could i can kind of
03:25 : i can kind of make things small
03:28 : but everything's gonna be small
03:31 : which which might be okay
03:33 : but um
03:34 : maybe i do that
03:39 : uh so yeah we'll we'll see so this is
03:42 : this is and and this is the run loop
03:45 : this is the even loop
03:47 : of the ui framework so you get you get
03:50 : to go in there
03:52 : oh
03:53 : this is a system that
03:56 : standard in that reconfigure that's a
03:58 : library function okay but we can look
04:01 : inside it as well
04:03 : nice
04:05 : so like this is like a standard python
04:08 : library and that's the internals of it
04:11 : if i want to step over it boom we're
04:14 : over it but if we want to go into it you
04:17 : can also look into the internals of this
04:20 : library it has a search function
04:23 : i don't know why it would have a search
04:25 : function but okay
04:26 : um
04:28 : if i wanted to know then i can
04:31 : you know
04:32 : look more into it
04:35 : but anyway so that's
04:37 : that's mainly what i did last week