[antlr-interest] newbie: can't enter input in the ANTLRWorks debugger

Johannes Luber jaluber at gmx.de
Mon Aug 6 11:06:32 PDT 2007


Chris Norris wrote:
> I'm a total newbie to ANTLR.  I started doing this tutorial:
> http://www.antlr.org/works/help/tutorial/calculator.html
>  
> I'm using ANTLRWorks 1.1.2 on Windows Vista.
> As far as I can tell, this is the basic getting started tutorial.  Any
> other starting points for people like me would be useful to know about. 
> So the interpreter stage of the tutorial went fine, but when I get to
> the debugger stage, I can't enter input.  The instructions state, " Now
> let's use the debugger to single step through the parse. Invoke the
> debugger (CTRL-F9) and enter the same input text as with the interpreter
> "2+3*4" followed by return."
>  
> The input area won't let me enter anything.  I click on it and type
> things, but nothing happens. 

There should be a dialog which allows to enter input text or to point to
a file. Maybe you need to go over the debug menu. It isn't possible to
insert text into that input area directly.

Best regards,
Johannes Luber


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