I just added the following comment to
http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7313
:
> In particular, swf9 does not support 'watch'ing Object properties
> (to allow it generally at runtime would impact performance
> severely); so we can't provide it in the debugger dynamically. We
> _could_ do something at compile time, e.g., we could add a property
> to <attribute>, say monitor="true", that would let you recompile
> your program and get the same effect as the current debugger call.
> (Similarly, we could add a property to <method>, say trace="true",
> that would trace calls to the method the way the current Debug.trace
> call does.)
It is very likely, going forward to other runtimes, that they will
also not support monitoring or tracing at runtime, so I am wondering
how much people use these Debug features (or if they even knew about
them)?
If you do use Debug.monitor and Debug.trace, would it be sufficient to
replace them, as I outline, so they could at least be enabled/disabled
by recompiling?
