A clue for using Valentina by XCMD

[Ken Ray]

Actually, I've been using and trapping errors in Valentina with MetaCard for
a long time and very rarely will it crash MetaCard; perhaps it's an IDE
interation thing with Rev?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Robert Brenstein
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 2:57 PM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: A clue for using Valentina by XCMD
> 
> 
> >Secondly, one needs to know that Valentina doesn't seem to 
> do much in 
> >the way of error checking; if you make mistakes, you are 
> liable to be 
> >punished by Rev immediately crashing.  So save early and often.  For 
> >example, although you can get the version without initialising 
> >Valentina, attempting to create a database before initialising will 
> >result in immediate crash.
> >
> 
> Yes, Valentina is optimized for max performance at run time, so there 
> is some crashing when starting to develop. You can set the debugging 
> level before calling init (I think it is the first or second function 
> described in the vxcmd manual). This function allows you to turn on 
> additional error checking in kernel during development (at the 
> expense of performance), although it won't necessarily stop crashing 
> if things are called out of order. The errors are passed back as the 
> result in format "error nnn" but a few functions return true/false so 
> watch out.
> 
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