Pause the game instead of freezing the whole Unity Editor when rider hits breakpoint

[pnarimani]

I don't know the reasoning behind freezing the whole unity. But it's counter productive for me.
When Rider hits the breakpoint, I cannot use the inspector to see the state of different objects. Which is very important in debugging.

My suggestion is that Rider should pause the game when it hits a breakpoint. This way I can still use the editor to evaluate the situation.

[SugoiDev]

I don't know if that's trivial to do because it's the same process. Moreover, you might be debugging editor code so you need to halt the editor to actually do any debugging/stepping.

I use it a lot when creating custom editors and inspectors, and when debugging Unity engine issues.

[pnarimani]

I think the correct way to solve this is to provide an option in Languages & Frameworks/Unity Engine section in settings to opt-in or opt-out this feature.
Something like a checkbox that says Pause the thread when a breakpoint is hit. When the checkbox is checked, Rider should freeze the unity editor completely, and when it's not checked, Rider should pause the game.

[van800]

This is not technically possible.
Unfortunately debugger protocol doesn't allow to execute code like EditorApplication.isPaused = true.
You may only add it to your scripts manually.

cc: @joncham

[pnarimani]

It's unfortunate that this is not possible.
Can Rider communicate to Rider plugin dll inside unity and call EditorApplication.isPaused = true through the plugin?

[van800]

When execution is stopped on brakepoint, we can't actually call anything.
If we just send async Pause signal without stopping the execution, it will be only applied later in future.

[pnarimani]

Alright. I will close this issue as it's not technically possible to pause the editor.