SlickC debugger?

[jporkkahtc]

Anyone have good tips / tricks for making the SlickC debugger work better?
Its always seemed a bit flakey, but this weekend I was working on some macros and I could hardly get the SlickC debugger to work at all.

I have my macro file loaded, then I start the SlickC debugger, set some breakpoints.
Back in the 1st instance of Slick I would invoke the macros, and the debugger hit the break points the first time.

That success was very elusive, as I wasn't able to get it to hit the breakpoints again.
Restarting slick didn't help, nor did starting with a empty configuration


In the failed attempts, the debugger only had the effect of suppressing  SlickC stack errors.
I had break points set before the errors would occur in the code, but the debugger wouldn't stop at the break points, though the SlickC stacks didn't show up either.

[jporkkahtc]

I discovered one of the problems ... Slick uses port 8003 for debugging.
I used TcpView to see what sockets are around.

I found that there was a socket listening on 8003 - but it wasn't owned by a process.

I don't know of anything other than Slick that uses port 8003, so maybe a previous instance of Slick somehow created this zombie socket.
I didn't think it was possible to leave a socket allocated after a process exited, but that's what appeared to be the case.

A reboot cleared up this particular problem.