Loading VM Presets

[Centripidity]

I suspect the answer is "no" but I'll ask anyway. Is there any way to load a VM preset into the VMD test bed?

Constantly making tweaks and republishing to check if a module is compatible with old presets is a tedious process.

[UrbanCyborg]

The debug environment doesn't support them, no. It does some other jiggery-pokery to debug it to the minimal extent it does. Other than that, I think you'd just have to run the routine in VM with some log functionality installed, and debug from the saved log.

Reid

[Centripidity]

I think you'd just have to run the routine in VM with some log functionality installed, and debug from the saved log.

Reid

Yeah, it's tedious but it turned out to be valuable. I was having a problem with a module that would, under repeatable circumstances, crash in VMD when I quit it. Nothing I could do in the debugger got me any closer to finding out why. When I published and loaded it into VM the problem just went away. No crashes. It seems as though it was something in the debug environment that was hanging when I quit the module.

[UrbanCyborg]

That's curious. It's usually the other way around, where the debug environment protects you from various run-time errors that the release environment doesn't. Of course, VMD's debug environment isn't a 100% faithful recreation of VM's.

Reid