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- Item forwarded by A33 to A34
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- Item 0772933 18-Feb-90 15:37PST
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- From: MADA2 MacApp Dev Assoc, Curtis Faith,IVC
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- To: FRIEDRICH1 Friedrich, Steve
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: RE Error Check w/o debugger
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- Steve and Steve,
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- I would like to second the request for a separation of error-checking (focus
- assertions, TList range checking etc.) from the MacApp debugger.
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- I think that this would be very valuable for those who are blowing the jump
- table with debugging on.
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- I also strongly suspect that the future users of Think Pascal, (and Steve's
- Debugger) would benefit greatly from not always needing the entire debugging
- environment to do error assertions.
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- The implementation of messages without a debug window could be handled through
- a call to a method of TApplication. The default might be to Writeln the
- message to the Debug window if debugging is on and bring up an alert if it is
- off. One could OVERRIDE this for any alternative behavior, like special calls
- to The Debugger or Think Pascal (I am hoping for some sort of Think equivalent
- to DebugStr ). However you handle it, it would be nice to have the calls go
- through a method. I really like to mess around with these sorts of things.
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- The MacApp debugger is an excellent way to quickly nail down certain types of
- errors. It is not always available due to Jump table limits. I think the
- separation would greatly benefit MacApp.
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- I don't seriously expect to see this in 2.0 final, but what about 2.1 or
- perhaps the Ninja MacApp 2.0.
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- - Curtis
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- P.S. I am really looking forward to working with 2.0 final. It looks likeyou
- have, once again, put in some neat additions!
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