When should cmd-period work?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Feb 2 20:40:58 EST 2009


Mark Wieder wrote:
> Jacque, Devin-
> 
> Monday, February 2, 2009, 4:46:35 PM, you wrote:
> 
>>> interrupted. It's almost like you really are in debug mode but the
>>> interface hasn't been updated to reflect that. Like you, I seem to 
>>> notice it happen when handlers are calling handlers are calling 
>>> handlers, in different objects.
> 
> I ran into this when writing the glx2 debugger as well. It seems like
> the engine and the IDE get off-sync about whether you're in debug mode
> or not. The menubar indicator isn't always right. If you check the
> state of the tracereturn in the messagebox when you're in that limbo
> state you'll probably find that it's false. I never have figured out
> what sets it into that state, but setting it true from the messagebox
> most of the time gets things back running. YMMV.

I wish. Nothing is active or clickable, and I can't type into the 
message box. The IDE is also unresponsive, so none of the toolbar icons 
or menus work either. :(

"It's dead, Jim."

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



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