Welcome to Aptana. My name is Michelle, and I'm going to be demonstrating basic debugger functionality, so just stepping into, stepping over and returning from stepping for a function while you're debugging, and I'm also going to show you how to suspend on a page load.

So to start, I'm going to start debugging this HTML page that I have open that has some JavaScript in it. I'll click the "Debug" button. It watches the page with the debugger, Firefox, and to start, I'm going to actually suspend the current thread, and I can do that by clicking the left-hand icon down here in the corner and choosing "Suspend," and now, I'm going to click "Start test."

It's telling me that the launch is configured to open the debug perspective when the thread suspends, and do I wanna open this perspective now. Yes, I do. As you can see, we have two different perspectives. There's the default Aptana perspective and there's the debug perspective. Since we're debugging, we'll wanna use the debug perspective.

Now, if I go up to the "debug you" here, I have buttons that can step into and step over a function. So we're going to step into the function, and we're going to step through it a bit just to see what's going on. So this takes me right into the function, where I've suspended the thread. I can continue to click this, and it'll just take me through the function.

I can click "Step over," and it steps out of the function into another function, and when I'm done with this, I can click this "Step return," and that'll take me back to the beginning. So that's how basic stepping works, and if I wanna terminate this, I can just click the "Terminate" button.

So now, I'm going to show you another option. If you wanna suspend on a page load, that's a preference that you can configure. So if I go up to "Window" > "Preferences," and check "Suspend at start," and then click "Okay," now, when I click the "Debug" button, it'll automatically suspend for me when that page loads, and it'll take me right back into the debugger.

That concludes this screencast. Thank you.

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