[chirp_devel] How to debug?

[Dan Clemmensen]

Thanks, Dan :-)
I have progressed slightly beyond that point. I debugged most of the code
using chirpc instead of chirpw. That let me use pdb, since chirpc did not
have the threading problem. I then installed the Eric6 IDE, which did do a
fairly good job of debugging chirpw with threads.

But there are also some fairly fundamental things I did not know about.
such as the 'browser" tab in the CHIRP GUI.

In any event I hope to finish up my ft4 driver in the next few days.

I still have not figured out how to use the tox unit testing system.

I am uncertain about the semantics of the tone modes. In particuar the
CHIRP code defines a mode (TSQL-R) that is not described on the web page
https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/DevelopersToneModes
but which appears to be the same asone of the cross modes.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:04 AM Dan Smith via chirp_devel <
chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

> > I am a very experienced software developer, but not with CHIRP, or
> Python, or Ham radio, so I'm basically a newbie  here. I have written a new
> driver for the FT-4XR and (eventually) for its siblings. The module
> successfully reads the radio, but then fails to fill in the GUI memory
> structures. I tried to use pdb as described at
> >      https://docs.python.org/2/library/pdb.html
> > by inserting the following line at a point in my module:
> >     import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
> > The breakpoint is reached, the line after mhy breakpoint is printed,
> and the (Pdb) prompt is shown on the console, but I cannot then type in a
> pdb command: characters are not shown on the console when typed and there
> is no evidence that the commands are being executed.
>
> This is probably because the driver is running in a different thread than
> the one that has control of the console (maybe?).
>
> > So, how do you guys debug? What am I doing wrong?
>
> With LOG.debug() statements :)
>
> I'm not a big debugger user myself, so perhaps I'm not the best person to
> help you with a workaround if you really need to figure out a way to use
> PBD with chirp.
>
> --Dan
>
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