Debugging Help

[Len Morgan]

I'm having trouble chasing down a problem: I have a field that is 
getting cleared as soon as you tab out of it.  I can't seem to locate 
where in the message path this is happening.  This SPECIFIC problem is 
mine to solve (punishment for a less than organized development approach).

What I'm wondering is if there is a way to show the path a message would 
take through the message heirarchy.  In other words is there some way I 
could send an exitField (or closeField) message to a specific field and 
then get some sort of listing of the path that message would take?  In 
other words, is there some way to simulate the "traceroute" command used 
in networking to the message path?

The other debugging chore I'd like to have is a stack compare function.  
Would it be difficult to create a function that would take two stack 
names as arguments and then display in two side by side panes the 
differences between them?  Not just scripts but objects, properties, 
etc?  I'm thinking of something like the interface that the 
"BeyondCompare" program (used to compare text files).

Anyway, any suggestions would be appreciated.

len morgan