Anyone interested in customizing the Execution Error stack

[Ray Horsley]

I've successfully customized the execution error substack from the 
McTools stack, thanks to help from Richard Gaskin and Xavier.  This is 
something I think a lot of us could use, so for anyone who's 
interested, here's how I did it.

I decided to alter the existing Execution Error stack instead of 
trapping for the errorDialog message and writing my own window since I 
couldn't seem to get the data out of the field in the Execution Error 
stack called "Error Message" soon enough (although it's nearly the same 
as the data supplied with the parameter for errorDialog).  With this 
approach in mind, I changed the name of the Help button on the 
Execution Error stack to Submit Report.  I then wrote my own handler 
which grabs all the error data from the field in the Execution Error 
stack called "Error Message".  Of course I added data like the date and 
the user's registration, and I gave the user an area to provide extra 
notes of what lead to the error.  Finally, my script grabs a screen 
shot of the entire monitor.  Then, a text file of the report is 
uploaded to my FTP site as well as the picture.

I studied a little the data Metacard provides regarding errors, but I 
still don't understand what some of the numbers mean.   The whole thing 
is kind of a weird area of Metacard to work with, a lot of unexpected 
behavior.  I eliminated a problems by sending the message from the 
Submit Report button in 30 instead of executing it right away.

I hope this is helpful.

Thank again to Richard and Xavier!


Ray Horsley
Developer, LinkIt! Software