[lyonta]

I have installed GapDebug on my MAC OS X Version 10.9.5. (About GapDebug menu option shows Version 2015 Update 1.2, GapDebug is up to date).

I have Google Chrome Version 42.02311.90 (64-bit) – About Google Chrome shows Google Chrome is up to date.

The GapDebug is in the menu bar on the top of the MAC screen. When I click on it and select Open Debugger nothing happens. When I do it again I get a popup that says GapDebug is already running.

My Activity monitor shows that it is running.

What to do? I have uninstalled and re-installed but still the same thing?
Works on the Windows 7 Professional machine but I REALLY NEED TO RUN IT ON MY MAC…
Thanks
Theres

[support-michael]

@ lyonta

Sounds like GapDebug is having trouble launching chrome or a chrome tab.
Try the following and let’s see if this gets you going:

1) start GapDebug on your mac if not already running. GapDebug (bug icon) is present on the top toolbar when running.

2) Start Chrome and enter the following URL
http://localhost:8080/gapdebug/index.html

By default, GapDebug will select an open system port starting at port 8080

3) if GapDebug does not start in #2 go to the GapDebug menu>Settings>Debugger page and change assign a custom port such as 8093 or any open port. Then repeat #2.

Please let us know if the outcome. If this process does not get you going then we’ll look deeper.

[lyonta]

Hi Michael,
Thank you for responding so quickly. This solution worked (http://localhost:8080/gapdebug/index.html) but I am confused by why I had to do this…
Another developer just clicks the icon, selects open debugger and it opens up! Anyways I can work with it.

I am basically a C# developer and only worked with Xamarin IDE so far as mobile development.
So as far as debugging with Javascript and HTML I am a newbie but this has become my new task at work.

I am a little confused on how to use this tool. Looked on the web for a good tutorial but haven’t found anything
yet. Any suggestions?

Where are the step into, step over, run to breakpoint, etc icons?
Thanks,
Theresa

[support-michael]

@lyonta

>…but I am confused by why I had to do this…

Chrome on Mac can be a little quirky. In most cases we are able to launch Chrome and open a tab for the GapDebug debugger, but not always. Unfortunately you happen to be one of the edge cases (sorry about that).

To your second question, rather than burn our resources reinventing the features of the best web debuggers we chose an embrace and extend approach. Thus GapDebug integrates custom versions of the open-source Safari WebKit Inspector and Chrome Dev Tools. Debugging an iOS app is nearly identical to debugging using the WebKit Inspector. Here is a reference to use for debugging iOS apps with GapDebug https://developer.apple.com/safari/tools/

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