Variable watcher not in the Development Menu

[Ron Zellner]

I've been using Revolution for a long time, recently converted to 3.0- just went to open the Variable Watcher (very handy feature) and the Variable Watcher is not in the Development Menu. The other features all seem to be there. Nothing in the documentation suggests any conditions necessary for this to display.
How do I get this feature back in the Menu display?

[Ron Zellner]

OK, I found the "Variables" Tab on the bottom of the Script Editor- has that replaced the Variable Watcher? (Documentation still references the Development MenuBar) I seem to see only Global Variables there- can it display all variables?
What I am currently trying to determine the status of the various attributes of a video player ("MovieScreen") so that I can test it- I have a scrollbar to control the speed that the movie plays at- but I don't want the movie to play when the scrollbar is changed; that currently happens with the script:

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on scrollbarDrag newValue 
  divide newValue by 100
  add .75 to newValue
  put newValue into field "PlaySpeed"
  set the playRate of player "MovieScreen" to newValue  
end scrollbarDrag

If it is playing I want it to continue playing, if it is paused I want it to stay paused.

[Ron Zellner]

This seems to do the trick for the player control, but I still can't display the variable watcher- the Variables tab only shows the globals and does not update like the old Variable Watcher did:

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on scrollbarDrag newValue
   Put the paused of player "MovieScreen" into WhatIs -- Added this
   divide newValue by 100
   add .75 to newValue
   put newValue into field "PlaySpeed"
   set the playRate of player "MovieScreen" to newValue  
   
  if WhatIs = "true" then                      --Added this
      play pause videoClip "MovieScreen"
   else
      play videoClip "MovieScreen"
   end if
   
end scrollbarDrag

[mwieder]

Ron- That doesn't sound right, and I just tried this to be sure, and local variables are displaying properly for me in the variable watcher.

[Mark]

Ron and Mark,

It sounds like a bug.

Mark

[mwieder]

Well, it should certainly be displaying them. Ron - this is while you're debugging, right? Otherwise there's no context for the local variables...