THe debugger is going for a walk???

[Howard Bornstein]

I filed a bug report on this missing Trace command back in 2009 (bug #
8144). Oliver Kenyon's response was:

Hi Howard,

Thanks for the report.

We decided to remove the trace feature from the IDE for version 3.0 to make the
product consistent with other more well-known development environments. The
engine support for tracing will remain as it may be useful for development of
third party debugging tools.

The user guide should be updated.

Regards
Oliver

I found this reasoning baffling, as reflected in my response:

Just to get this clear, you decided to remove a useful feature because other
competing products *didn't* have this feature?? *scratches his head*

I'm afraid I don't follow the logic on this one. I find the trace feature to be
extremely useful in certain circumstances and I request you reconsider this
somewhat dubious reasoning for its removal.

Unfortunately, Trace never made its way back into the debug menu and there
are still Trace commands listed in the dictionary (TraceStack,TraceReturn,
TraceDelay).

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:27 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 7/24/12 10:39 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
>
>> On Jul 24, 2012, at 10:49 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>
>>  On 7/24/12 7:30 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've never seen this before . . .
>>>>
>>>> I but in a break, it stops there, and then, once I step into or
>>>> over, it keeps walking!
>>>>
>>>> Uhh, come back!
>>>>
>>>> A useful feature, sure, if I had any idea how I triggered it . .
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Sounds like you triggered the "Trace" command.
>>>
>>
>> I've had this happen at random occasionally, with no recipe that I've
>> been able to find. Have to restart to finally step through the
>> script. MacBook, OSX 10.6.8, Rev Studio 4.5.3, build 1210.
>>
>
> After all these years I just noticed there is no "trace" command in the
> debugger menu. (There's one in the MetaCard IDE.) If you ever do figure out
> what's triggering it, it would be nice to know.
>
> Putting "trace" into a handler does not error, but it doesn't trace either.
>
>
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Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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