Debugging Guide

Writing massive applications leaves a lot of room for we failable humans to get a few things wrong. Luckily, WXPython comes with an awesome builtin debugging tool called InspectionTool. This'll walk you though using it with re-wx.

Launching the Inspection Tool

The tool is its own top-level Frame independent of yours, so you can create the InspectionTool anywhere as long as it's after the creation of wx.App.

def main(): 
    app = wx.App()
    import wx.lib.inspection
    wx.lib.inspection.InspectionTool().Show()
    # rest of your code here

This'll launch the the Inspection Tool, which looks like this:

Using name to identify Elements in the debugger

All builtin re-wx componets take a prop called name. When supplied, it will tag the wx components with that name in the debugger. This makes it much easier to find specific blocks is a large application.

def render():
    return wsx([StaticText, {'name': 'My Clock', ...}])