Cannot use WebStorm console in 'live' mode - webstorm

How do I view/peruse objects in WebStorm in console live mode?
In Chrome, when I am sitting on a breakpoint, I can type something into the console like so :
myObject.myVal[0].elem
However when I am in WebStorm, sitting on a breakpoint on one of my tests, I open the console, but I cannot type into the console!! I cannot see any objects.
It just looks like this :
I seem to remember it used to be able to do something like this. Is there some setting somewhere that I need to set?
[..Update..]
Yes, I was right. It was possible for me to do this in the past :
https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2014/07/new-live-console-in-javascript-and-node-js-debugger/
This seems not to work for me anymore, or it is broken when running tests.
It makes WebStorm pretty useless for me at the moment.

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Debugger popup message "Getting DataTip text"

This Debugger message pops up randomly while i am attempting to examine a variable while a breakpoint has hit in Visual Studio 2017.
Shortly thereafter, a larger message box appears that shows the following: "Evaluating the function 'System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadForm' timed out."
After enabling option Tools / Options / Debugging / General / Only managed code, the second message box have disappeared. But first message is still showing.
The problem is that first popup window appears for a relatively long time, that makes debugging process very noncomfortable. What else Visual Studio debugger options could I set to disable this popup?
(1)Tools->Options, uncheck the setting Debugging / General / Enable property evaluation and other implicit function call, and enable the Use Managed Compatibility Mode.
(2)Deleted all the .suo/obj/Bin/.user files in your project, and then re-open your project, clean and build your solution, debug it again.
This solution works fine for me:
Uncheck the new langage JavasScript Language Service in Options -> Editor -> JavaScript -> Language Service.
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I'm having this same issue and there doesn't appear to be a solution. It's extremely frustrating because when the "Getting DataTip text..." does popup and eventually goes away, my breakpoints no longer work.
The solutions listed here have not solved the problem, I've tried them ALL ... even a wipe and re-install of OS and VS 2015.
Debugging without ability to do property evaluation and other implicit function calls is basically NOT debugging and defeats the purpose.
Microsoft seem to be aware of the problem but keep closing the tickets as "unable to replicate" ... yet, a simple Google Search will show many many thousands of hits of developers running into this problem. I keep opening tickets with Microsoft, but they just keep getting closed or merged with no solution.
Cheers, Rob.
The ONLY solution that worked for me:
CMD window (Run As Admin)
type SFC /SCANNOW and wait for it to complete and hopefully fix any errors
Reboot
Bring up VS 2015 or 2017 without loading any project
In VS select Tools | Import and Export Settings | Reset all Setting ... now pick the template you use (i.e. VB, C, Web)
Exit VS
Load VS project and debug
Cheers, Rob.
Old post, but maybe it will help someone anyway ;)
In my case I got this every time I examined the first variable while debugging.
Annoying as hell as I due to the nature of the work restart the debugger often.
This was cause by that the location where my Visual Studio 2017 files were saved, was a cloud drive and it actually had to sync the files before showing the data.
The solution was to mark that whole folder "Always keep on this device".
Cheers,
​Here is one possible solution:
I had this error never seen - then my graphics card (Nvidia) was gone and I removed the graphics card and worked with the integrated Intel. Then I got this error in after 3-4 steps. I installed a Nvidia again and now the "getting data" text message was never shown again.
Btw: this was the fix for the error
"64 bit debugging operation is taking longer than expected"
I had the same issue when I wanted to evaluate variables while debugging in my Unit tests and couldn't find any solution.
This is the solution that helped me: Tools -> Options / Debugging / General. Uncheck "Call string-conversion function on objects in variables windows".
This might only work for some people.

Qt Console with Bash

I am writing a program using the Qt framework. I would like the user to be able to have access to a console/terminal from within the application itself.
In other words, the user should be greeted with a "BASH" prompt when they start the program.
I have looked into QTermWidget, but there doesn't seem to be too much documentation on it and it doesn't seem to be up to date either.
I've looked at QConsole, but it only seems to be able to run TCL/Python consoles.
How would I be able to embed a terminal into my application?
There is really not much tutorial needed for QTermWidget, although there is one here.
The purpose of the widget is that it does not require any complication. The code would be something like this without the extra settings:
QTermWidget *console = new QTermWidget();
QMainWindow *mainWindow = new QMainWindow();
mainWindow->setCentralWidget(console);
It is also not necessarily true that it is not up-to-date. It was recently updated to build against Qt 5 properly. If you lack anything, please use the issue tracker on github.
It should be more or less in mature and "complete" state, that is why you may not see heavy progress. It is just a widget after all, not a big framework.
You could try QProcess. This is not strictly "embedding" a terminal in your app, but it it really easy to use, you can kick off a terminal that is owned by your app. You can even connect (with signals / slots) to its output and interact with it in a limited fashion... depends on what you need.
Here is the doc with some simple examples: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/QProcess.html
I am not at my Qt-PC today so I don't have an "interacting" example for you, but if you think this is a way for you to go then I can dig that out...

How do I view the colorized output of Google Test in Xcode in the "All Output" window?

I'm new to Xcode (and Macs in general) and am trying to port some of my code base over to run on both OS X and iOS. I have a large set of unit tests written against the Google C++ Testing Framework (Google Test). I successfully compiled the framework and I can run some tests, but I'm unsure how to view the colorized output from within Xcode.
I'm used to hitting "Run" in Visual Studio and immediately seeing a console window (with colors) letting me know at a glance if the tests passed or failed.
I've managed to set up a "Run Script" "Build Phase" but that seems to only output to the Log Navigator which obliterates the colors and even the fixed-width output making it very difficult to see at a glance if the tests pass. I also can't find a way to display the log after running the tests. When I do this nothing appears in the "All Output" window.
I've played around with XcodeColors but that doesn't seem to work with scripts that use the ANSI color codes.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if this simply can't be done within Xcode. That would be ideal, but if it isn't, is it possible to create a "Run Script" that will run the tests in an independent Terminal window? Colors work fine there.
Thanks for any help!
Here are links to a tool that colorizes the text in the Log window. It's free and the source is in github so you can figure out how it works. The first link says that it just uses simple ANSI codes to do the job.
http://deepitpro.com/en/articles/XcodeColors/info
https://github.com/robbiehanson/XcodeColors#readme
To kick off the execution from within Xcode, you will probably need to add a new target to your project. To add a Target, click on your project and then there is an Add Target button on the bottom of the screen. I don't know exactly what you're executing but here are my best guesses based on your question:
MacOSX/Application/Cocoa-AppleScript or Command Line Tool - Create a simple script or program that will execute your units tests.
MacOSX/Other/External Build System - Allows for execution of an external "make" program with args.
Once you have a way to execute your unit tests, you just need to figure out how to route the output from the unit tests to the Log window. If you can edit the Google Test project and make it use NSLog(), that would seem to be the easiest solution. You could create your own logging method, perform the ANSI colorization, and then send the final text to NSLog().
ADDED: OK. Interesting findings... Read all before starting. Here's what to do:
Start AppleScript Editor. This is in LaunchPad. Paste the following script into it:
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script "<your commands>" in window 1
end tell
You can repeat the "do script" line as needed. Use this to execute your unit tests. In Script Editor, do Save As.../File Format=Script and save it to a safe location for now like your Documents directory. This will create a file like "UnitTests.scpt".
Now go to your iOS project. Select the project at the top-left. Select the Build Phases tab top-middle. Click the Add Build Phase button on the bottom right. Here's the interesting part.
Leave Shell as is ("/bin/sh"). Add one line:
osascript ~/Documents/UnitTests.scpt
That will execute the script after every build.
But here's the interesting part I found. Click on Build Settings (top-middle). Make sure All is selected (not Basic). Scroll down the list to find Unit Testing. Open Test Host. Hit the + next to Debug. You can also put the above osascript command here. You might be able to execute your unit tests here and if you can, the output will likely show up in the Log! Let me know what happens.
I am familiar in Java: JUnit + JCodecoverage, at mobile applications: Android and iPhone I was to lazy to develop with TDD, but if I would like to start than :
I would create a Hello Word app, with JUnitTesting options turned on:
Include Unit Test checked
That will create a Test App / target whatever, and you will be able to run that.
The same thing it is at Android too: you have to create a "test project"
Once I did and forgot how is working, but, there are other stuff too:
- long press the Play button on Xcode ( 4.4 ) and you will have a dropdown menu with: Run, Test, Profile,Analyze.
I can't present those, because if I press the Shift+ Cmd + 4 to screenshot it it is changing, but here it look like the changed menu:
IMHO: for banking, forex, other financial or military (high security software) I would use test driven development, with over 99% code coverage, but those simple 3-4 web-service call mobile apps, which display public data available in browsers are just waste of time to develop tests and upkeep it!
Many times I need to test with internet connection and without.
to be worse case with WI-FI connection , but router doesn't give IP or let go out the phone, but if I ask the phone state: it is connected...
The GUI flow hard to test from unit testing, where is / would be usefully for me: the data got from web-service and synchronization with internal cache. As I see it is still cheaper to do it with manu testing.

Selenium wait for download?

I'm trying to test the happy-path for a piece of code which takes a long time to respond, and then begins writing a file to the response output stream, which prompts a download dialog in browsers.
The problem is that this process has failed in the past, throwing an exception after this long amount of work. Is there a way in selenium to wait-for-download or equivalent?
I could throw in a Thread.sleep, but that would be inaccurate and unnecessarily slow down the test run.
What should I do, here?
I had the same problem. I invented something to solve the problem. A tempt file is created by Python with '.part' extension. So, if still we have the temp, python can wait for 10 second and check again if the file is downloaded or not yet.
while True:
if os.path.isfile('ts.csv.part'):
sleep(10)
elif os.path.isfile('ts.csv'):
break
else:
sleep(10)
driver.close()
So you have two problems here:
You need to cause the browser to download the file
You need to measure when the downloaded file is complete
Neither problemc an be directly solved by Selenium (yet - 2.0 may help), but both are solvable problems. The first problem can be solved by GUI automation toolkits, such as AutoIT. But they can also be solved by simply sending an automated keypress at the OS level that simulates the enter key (works for Firefox, a little harder on some versions of Chrome and Safari). If you're using Java, you can use Robot to do that. Other languages have similar toolkits to do such a thing.
The second issue is probably best solved with some sort of proxy solution. For example, if your browser was configured to go through a proxy and that proxy had an API, you could query the proxy with that API to ask when network activity had ended.
That's what we do at http://browsermob.com, which is a a startup I founded that uses Selenium to do load testing. We've released some of the proxy code as open source, available at http://browsermob.com/tools.
But two problems still persist:
You need to configure the browser to use the proxy. In Selenium 2 this is easier, but it's possible to do it with Selenium 1 as well. The key is just making sure that your browser launcher brings up the browser with the right profile/settings.
There currently is no API for BrowserMob proxy to tell you when network traffic has stopped! This is a big hole in the concept of the project that I want to fix as soon as I get the time. However, if you're keen to help out, join the Google Group and I can definitely point you in the right direction.
Hope that helps you identify your various options. Best of luck!
This is Chrome-testing-only solution for controlling the downloads with javascript..
Using WebDriver (Selenium2) it can be done within Chrome's chrome:// which is HTML/CSS/Javascript:
driver.get( "chrome://downloads/" );
waitElement( By.CssSelector("#downloads-summary-text") );
// next javascript snippet cancels the last/current download
// if your test ends in file attachment downloading
// you'll very likely need this if you more re-instantiated tests left
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("downloads.downloads_[0].cancel_();");
There are other Download.prototype.functions in "chrome://downloads/downloads.js"
This suites you if you just need to test some info note eg. caused by file attachment starting activity, and not the file itself.
Naturally you need to control step 1. - mentioned by Patrick above - and by this you control step 2. FOR THE TEST, not for the functionality of actual file download completion / cancel.
See also : Javascript: Cancel/Stop Image Requests which is relating to Browser stopping.
This falls under the "things that can't be automated" category. Selenium is built with JavaScipt and due to JavaScript sandbox restrictions it can't access downloads.
Selenium 2 might be able to do this once Alerts/Prompts have been implemented but that this won't happen for the next little while yet.
If you want to check for the download dialog, try with AutoIt. I use that for uploading and downloading the files. Using AutoIt with Se RC is easier.
def file_downloaded?(file)
while File.file?(file) == false
p "File downloading in progress..."
sleep 1
end
end
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Parse information from programs added to taskbar with C++

Basically what I am trying to do is write my own pseudo task bar in C++. The program needs to idle until another program is started up, at which point it needs to visually depict that the other program is running. For each other program that is running, the user should be able to click on the visual representation and have Windows switch focus to the selected program.
The big underlying question at this point: is this even a possibility? Or has Windows hidden most/all of its fiddly-bits to make this close to, if not completely, impossible?
[EDIT:] restructured the question
The obvious starting point would be SetWindowsHookEx(WH_SHELL,...); which will get you notifications when top-level windows are created or destroyed (along with some other related events, like a different window being activated, a window's title changing, etc.)
Think ahead to actually bringing the window to the front, as I once researched myself.
SetForegroundWindow() won't work unless issued from the foreground process - neither SwitchToThisWindow() nor the AttachThreadInput() kludge seemed to always work, but maybe I just wasn't doing it right. Anyway as far as I know there no way to make a window foreground as good as Windows does, please enlighten me if say you discover say an undocumented call which actually Works.
It seems possible to me at least in a basic way:
1. Set up a shell hook as described by Jerry
2. figure the executable file from the module handle to access it's icons using shell services
The Vista-like feature of keeping a 'live' miniature of the screen seems much more challenging.