Debugger For Mel

[kunzang]

I guess that this is one way python can help out, but there is still alot of legacy MEL code that will be around for another few years that will need to be debugged. I'm not expecting anything on the level of visual studio, but being able to step through code and watch variables would be nice.

[joojaa]

You could actually do this in maya, with a eval trick. However mel is so simpe that you rarely need any of this.

Thing is we had a competition in school at who does better code those whoa have a acces to debugger and use it frequently or dose that do not. Surprisingly the ones without a debugger made better code, and also coded faster because they used much better practices writing it.

[kunzang]

Mel is simple when you do simple things. Creating complex gui's can lead to complicated scripts very fast, and it can be useful to use a debugger for those. I guess you are arguing that debugger is not as useful as good programming. Yes, nothing replaces good programming, but debuggers are also useful. At least says the industry.

[joojaa]

You cant really debug ui layout stuff

[kunzang]

maybe not the generation but why not the callbacks?

[joojaa]

Sure you can do that with mel

Anyway it cant be so big industry request since nobody's requested it yet?

PS autodesk has a custom engineering department tht would make this for you on reqest!