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Stepping through the code

Figure 14-19

You also have many options to clear a breakpoint. First, you can click on the

in the left margin

until it turns back to a dash. You can also right-click on the Breakpoints view to call up a context menu

where you can select whether to clear a hard breakpoint, a future breakpoint, all hard breakpoints, or all

future breakpoints.

The last method is to use the command line interface again and use the

/clear

command (to clear hard

breakpoints) or the

/fclear

command (to clear future breakpoints). These commands accept the same

arguments as

/break

and

/fbreak

: the filename and the line number to clear. Once again, the full file-

name isn’t necessary, so the following two lines accomplish the same thing:

/clear ThrowExample.htm 7

/clear Thr 7

You can clear all hard breakpoints using the

/clear-all

command and all future breakpoints using the

/fclear-all

command.

Stepping through the code

As with breakpoints, you have numerous ways to step through your source code. The simplest way is to

use the debug toolbar (Figure 14-20), which is prominently displayed at the top of the Venkman window.

Figure 14-20

The debug toolbar is made up of five buttons: Stop, Continue, Step Over, Step Into, and Step Out. The

Stop button stops the currently active script without executing any further lines of code. If no code is

being executed, three white dots appear over the Stop button to indicate that the debugger is not currently

When you clear a hard breakpoint, it automatically becomes a future breakpoint.

That means you must first clear all hard breakpoints and then all future breakpoints

to effectively eliminate all breakpoints.

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