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Windows How do you reset a buggy debugger?

Dustin

Member
My problems started when scripts with breakpoints wouldn't always appear in the debug window. Instead, the program would just pause until I went to the debug window (which was empty) and pressed the "play" button. Now, there are phantom breakpoints which won't go away, even after I cleaned the project and restarted GMS2.

Are there files I can delete to get the debug mode functional again? I really don't want to reinstall GMS2 since its difficult to control exactly which compiler version it uses and last time its configuration changed it took me a month to get the code fully functional again (since some functions were obsoleted or started behaving differently).
 

Nocturne

Friendly Tyrant
Forum Staff
Admin
There are two things that you can try before going to the extreme of uninstalling and reinstalling:

1) Clear the cache! The "broom" icon at the top (beside Play and Debug) will do this for you and there are also some extra functions for cleaning the cache in the IDE Preferences.
2) Reset the IDE layout from the menu at the top of the screen. This could be that the layout for the debugger has become "corrupted" somehow so this may fix it.
 

Dustin

Member
There are two things that you can try before going to the extreme of uninstalling and reinstalling:

1) Clear the cache! The "broom" icon at the top (beside Play and Debug) will do this for you and there are also some extra functions for cleaning the cache in the IDE Preferences.
2) Reset the IDE layout from the menu at the top of the screen. This could be that the layout for the debugger has become "corrupted" somehow so this may fix it.
Thanks! I didn't know about the "Reset IDE" option. In the end, I was able to fix the issue by resetting the IDE, clearing the cache, and restarting GMS2.
 
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