Advanced layout editor - like chrome dev tools, for roku

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I’ve now spoken to too many developers who have no idea this tool exists.

You are losing countless hours on painful debugging. Find the tool here : https://devtools.web.roku.com/

scroll down.

It’s brilliant!

and while you’re at it - join the slack group, so we can all keep each other informed https://join.slack.com/t/rokudevelopers/shared_invite/enQtMzU5Njc5ODM5MzAyLWE2MTIxMWQ5Nzg0Y2E3ODgzYTk4NmQxMDg2YjRjYjdiMzM5ZDU4ZTc0YmM1ZmU0Mzc5MzI3ODU3MmUxOTdlNTE

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Thank you, I had never seen that tool.

I’m trying to get it to inspect the scene graph of my existing app (not built with RALE).
From the docs it looks like this should be possible, but I haven’t been able to yet.

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I added, instantiated, and set the “RUN” the “TrackerTask” but still don’t see anything.

“… does not contain a RALE component.”

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“acreskey” wrote:
I added, instantiated, and set the “RUN” the “TrackerTask” but still don’t see anything.

“… does not contain a RALE component.”

  1. put the xml file in components folder
  2. go to the init block in the scene file and add the first statement as m.tracker=m.top.createChild(“TrackerTask”)
  3. create zip and load it to roku while the RALE is open on your computer.
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Thank you manishDev, that worked and it’s certainly a powerful tool.

I don’t know why, but I did have to disable this event handler because it was crashing:

Sub SelectorView_UpdateViewPosition(event)

(within the TrackerTask.xml – the timer’s parent was invalid).