On Jan 7, 10:40 pm, Woody <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, I don't understand either of your answers. Adding window.parent > as a new Watch expression shows all the properties of the window, but > not any of the global variables. Typing dir(parent) or dir(window) in > the DOM command line gives "ReferenceError: dir is not defined > { message="dir is not defined", lineNumber=1, more...}". > > In any case, even if these methods worked, they are far too cumbersome > to be useful. What is needed is for the global variables to appear > automatically in the Watch window, or at least an object that expands > to showing the global objects. > > Here is a sample HTML page with some global variables gn and gs. Can > you give me step-by-step directions for viewing their values if I am > at a Javascript breakpoint in frame L?
If you are on a breakpoint in code in frame L, then the global variable gn and gs are not visible. They are global in the main page, they are not global in the code in frame L. To verify this you can set gn="hello" then in L.html add a script tag that has alert(gn). I believe frame and iframe are similar: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/iframe#Scripting jjb > > <html> > <head> > <title>My Page</title> > <script> > var gn; > var gs=[]; > </script> > </head> > <frameset rows="400,*"> > <frameset cols="400,*"> > <frame src="B.html"> > <frame src="S.html"> > </frameset> > <frameset cols="550"> > <frame src="L.html"> > </frameset> > <noframes> > You need to have a more current browser to use this player. > </noframes> > </frameset> > </html> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
