<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I vote for Richard as President next year! oops, Im not a US citizen...</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I will gladly maintain the script editor and documentation but one thing </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I came across this morning lifted a serious problem: engine info...</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">When the MC engine is changed (like 2.4->2.5), there are changes left and right about how are </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">debugged or handled. One of these was the infamous variable watcher (so called debugger!)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It is essential that we know about these changes which was rarely the case before. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Most changes are undocumented - not in the doc or the read-me other than for mentioning them</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">as major features... </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Here's the best example:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">One thing puzzled me regarding the variable watcher: there is no display for arrays. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Exploring that script, I found a debugdo() hander (much like the do handler) - which </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I just couldn't find documented or scripted anywhere... Editing Scripts while</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">debugging is really something misterious and can be crash prone!!! (Never close a </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">script window when it's in debug mode!!!) </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It took me two hours to find out that you couldn't use local variables as a storage </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">while working in the VW... And it's mostly all in Dynamic scripting! And since you </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">are in the VW, you can't debug it! ;)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Fun stuff!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Nonetheless, I managed to make a variable watcher that handles display of both </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">numeric[5,3] and associative["metacard"] arrays! </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Modifying them is left for later but I should release it soon ;)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">So how can we get all this documentation? And keep it up to date?</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We are very fortunate though to have MCTools as an opensource stack!</font>
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