RE: Anyone want to code a useful utility and get some EuBucks?
Guess I'm an idiot. I just downloaded it. Nobody uses it (not even me,
that's why I had to download it), because it's got at least 2 bugs in
it.
Plus, it already writes the variables to a file, unless I screwed that
up also.
SR.Williamson wrote:
> Here's what I had in mind.
>
> A little include that sets up the db/file/etc to hide the details for
> newbies, and me.
>
> A function/procedure in the include that allows you to call it and send
> it a variable name. Whenever you have a variable that needs to be
> written, you call, for example (pseudocode)
> /start
> debugger(myVaribleName, myvariable, variableLocation)
> /end
>
> and it writes the state to a file.
>
> Heck, I think most of the work is already done even. I submitted
> something called trackvar to Rob ages ago, which was a
> lazy/sloppy/amateurish (like all my programs) attempt to get a Win32
> watch window in Eu. Probably could easily be modified to write the
> results. Which I probably should do. I have no idea how to use eds
> though, so I guess that's not the way I'll do it.
>
> Kat wrote:
> > On 13 Jun 2002, at 11:59, SR.Williamson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I didn't realize that long sequences are truncated until Bernie
> > > mentioned it. I normally don't use long sequences.
> > >
> > > By strange coincidence, on this project, I do use them, and yep, they
> > > are truncated. I had planned to use ex.err as a debugging tool, but
> it's
> > >
> > > pretty useless now.
> > >
> > > Anyone up for coding a debug include file that will write a list of
> > > variables and sequences to an eds database?
> >
> > You can't write a general include to list all the vars used up until
> > then, for two
> > reasons.
> >
> > 1) you can't point a crash routine at it, so it will not have the
> > correct state of
> > the vars at crash time. Many people have asked for this ability.
> > 2) you can't know the names and state of vars unless explicitly coded
> > into
> > the include at run time. I have asked for this repeatedly, it would be a
> > step up
> > from mirc.
> >
> > Kat
> >
> >
> >
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