ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

[Mark Schonewille]

Sure, Richard, it is clear that you won't buy that app. Others will, already did, and I'm glad I was able to provide them with something useful.

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On 20 jul 2011, at 01:21, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Mark Schonewille wrote:
> 
>> Hi Chipp,
>> 
>> Weird. I would expect all pros to know about it.
>> 
>> I'd say, give it a try. execute the following script
>> 
>> on foo
>>  try
>>    executeNonExistingHandler
>>  catch myErr
>>    put myErr
>>  end try
>> end foo
> 
> I doubt many pros would need a lookup to figure out that a non-existent handler would result in a "can't find handler" error. ;)
> 
> But seriously, most devs using try/catch setups won't be executing random code, they'll be working on things that are somewhat well defined, and use their own error messages to report to the user.  I don't know of any dev who report RunRev's messages to their users; they just don't provide enough guidance for the user.
> 
> Those so inclined can just use the same list everything else in the LiveCode world uses, the one RunRev provides for us in their revErrorDisplay stack:
> 
>   get line (item 1 of tErr) of the cErrorsList of cd 1  \
>     of stack "revErrorDisplay" into tList
> 
> 
> Section 10.4 ("Custom Error handling") of the LiveCode User Guide covers this well.
> 
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