crash feature request
Rob,
I was trying to get a program to generate ex.err AND suppress the message on the
screen. It doesn't seem to be possible.
The ref manual says this:
for crash_file():
<quote>
s may be empty, i.e. "". In this case no diagnostics or debugging information
will be written to either a file or the screen. s might also be "NUL" or
"/dev/null", in which case diagnostics will be written to the screen, but the
ex.err information will be discarded.
</quote>
And for crash_message():
<quote>
By calling crash_message() you can control the message that will appear on the
screen. Debugging information will still be stored in ex.err. You won't lose any
information by doing this.
s may contain '\n', new-line characters, so your message can span several lines
on the screen. Euphoria will switch to the top of a clear text-mode screen before
printing your message.
</quote>
My proposal is: since you can call crash_file("") to suppress ex.err, do you
think you could make it so that crash_message("") will just suppress the message
on the screen? That way the error file can still be generated, but then the
program will just end without making a console window appear.
I think this would be a useful option for programs that are intended to be
background services that are never supposed to put anything on the screen.
What do you think about it, Rob?
Ryan W. Johnson
Fluid Application Environment
http://www.fluidae.com/
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