I'm writing a clock plasmoid, based off of the analog clock (which means that it's a c++ one - that plasmoid has not yet been ported over to QML apparently). The idea is to make a clock on an alternate time scheme which uses 10 "hour" days with 100 "minute" "hours".

I've already written the data engine for this, and a simple digital clock plasmoid in QML that works just fine using the data engine. So I believe that part is okay.

However, my analog plasmoid draws the clock at 0, and the hands never update. I've tried using the Debug view in KDevelop to run my plasmoid, insert some break points and read the variables at that point in execution, but when I attempt to launch with F9, I just get a dialog message "The current launch configuration does not support the 'debug' mode."

I don't see anything in the launch confguration screen to enable debug mode - does anyone have any advice for debugging this?

How did you configure the launch? I'm not sure how you launch a plasmoid in general but if you don't use the "Native" launcher, debugging will not work afaik.

Greetings

In Menu/Configure Launches... I clicked on the New Launch... button, and selected "Plasmoid Launcher."

Yes I guess it is expected that debugging does not work this way. I'm unfamiliar with writing plasmoids, do you have some executable you can run to make the plasmoid show up? Then you could use that with the "Native" launcher.

The command "plasmoidviewer" should allow you to run a Plasma Applet standalone.

Ah ha! Thanks. For anyone else, the "native" application launcher is not actually called "native," but it's also not "any one of the native options in the kdevelop" either. It's (at least currently) called "Application."

But once I figured that out, it seems to be working now.

Edit: Yup definitely works! I figured out where my problem was, and now my plasmoid works.