Stray Puts

[Michael Doub]

As long as we are sharing debugging techniques, let me share what I am doing for IOS development.   I created a launcher app that has a Global LogData buffer.   The launcher app has a display window and 3 buttons.   One button goes to a file in my dropbox that contains a list of URLs to the other stacks available to load and lists them in the display window.  A second button does a "go stack URL" to the selected line in the display window thus dynamically loading the stack from my dropbox.   This allows for a quick edit/save/test cycle that people discussed on a separate thread.  The third button copies the LogData into the display window.

In my stacks I include the routines below for logging.  I find the IOS environment pretty fragile so I set things up to bail out of the stack leaving the logData for examination.  I push and pop the log so I can keep the memory foot print down and the current context readily available.

There are 2 logging functions tlog and log.  I replace "tlog" with "--tlog" after debugging or set the logTrace to false.  The log, push and pop stay in place for when things go really bad.  I tend make the tlog output "documentation like" so it is pretty easy to come back and figure out what in the world I was thinking about when I wrote this code.

Enjoy!
   Mike



--> Log Management Functions


Global LogData
Global logTrace
Global Logindent


on tlog x
   if (logTrace) then log (x)
end tlog

on log x
   repeat Logindent times
      put space after LogData
   end repeat
   put x && return after LogData
end log

on Dump
   Log ("== Dump Forced ==")
   close the defaultStack 
   exit to top
end Dump

on clearlog x
   put 0 into Logindent
   put empty into LogData
end clearlog

on Pushlog x
   put "<>" && x & return after LogData
   add 3 to Logindent
   do x
end Pushlog

on Poplog
   repeat until LogData is empty
      put the last line of LogData into y
      if word 1 of y <> "<>" then
         delete the last line of LogData
      else
         delete the last line of LogData
         exit repeat
      end if
   end repeat
   subtract 3 from Logindent
end Poplog




On 02/24/2012, at 2:05 PM, Marty Knapp wrote:

> I've gotten in the habit of doing this:
> 
> --TEST:
> put blah blah blah
> 
> Then I can just do a search for "--TEST" and find the "put" and delete it. Not very high-tech, but it works for me.
> 
> Marty K
>> Anyone ever scripted a put to put something in the message box, and then forgot it was there and had a helluvatime finding it again? I give you:
>> 
>> function findPut theScript
>>     filter theScript without "* into *"
>>     filter theScript without "* before *"
>>     filter theScript without "* after *"
>>     filter theScript with "*put *"
>>     return theScript
>> end findPut
>> 
>> I LOVE that filter command!
>> 
>> Bob
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