Meaningful and verbose error messages in LiveCode

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

 > In FoxPro you could simply create a handler which got triggered by
 > errors then check an internal code for what the most recent error
 > was, then make a switch statement to handle all the pertinent errors
 > for your project. The normal error message display was suppressed so
 > that the developer could present a message of his own and then act
 > accordingly. For example, database connection errors could drop into
 > a repeat loop asking the user to try again or quit. I think this
 > would be a preferable method to try/catch because all your error code
 > could be consolidated into one place.

That's pretty much what LiveCode offers with the errorDialog message.

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