expanding an error description

[Richard Gaskin]

Phil Davis wrote:

> I help maintain some software whose users can sometimes generate an 
> error by entering malformed data in a given field (e.g. non-numeric data 
> where math is done after data is moved into temp variables). What I'm 
> looking for is some code that displays the contents of the variables 
> containing malformed data. However, the error handling code is in a 
> libraried stack so I assume I can't just "get the variableNames" from 
> there and work with those, since the error occurred in the script of a 
> different stack.

Rev's Variable Watcher or Ken's Variable Watcher in MC should provide an 
example of what's needed.  I believe at the core of it you're looking 
for the debugContext.

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