expanding an error description

[Phil Davis]

Thanks guys! I knew there had to be a way and didn't want to spend time 
reinventing the wheel.

Phil


Trevor DeVore wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>
>> Has anyone already developed a code snippet that does this?
>>
>> 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.
>
> You could use the debugContext to get the variable value. This lesson 
> shows how to set "it" in another context. You could probably figure 
> out how to do it by looking at the example.
>
> Write A Command That Sets 'the result' And 'it': 
> <http://revolution.screenstepslive.com/spaces/revolution/buckets/tutorials/lessons/923> 
>
>
> Regards,
>

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