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[Craig Newman]

Message Watcher? AHA.

My one entry into the "bug” pollI was to complain about random crashes of LC itself now and then. Not likely to have that solved anytime soon.  But I am tempted to categorizes as a bug a sorely missing feature of the message watcher:

In the Forum "https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=35496&p=207822&hilit=message+watcher#p207822 <https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=35496&p=207822&hilit=message+watcher#p207822>”

This missing feature oftentimes cripples the usefulness of the MW, and that ought to be thought of as a bug.

HA

Craig


> On Oct 28, 2021, at 1:17 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, but the message watcher is way too verbose. I do not need every system message, only the ones called by my own code, and I need to at least be able to discern when procedures exit. 
> 
> My reason is that I have 15+ modules that all need to use  the publish and subscribe method I am implementing, and it is a LOT easier to grok a summary of handlers as in the format below to ensure I am standardizing things in all the modules. 
> 
> I thought about using a common behavior, but each module has to subscribe to only the messages it needs. The messages are almost all querys of a database and populating of datagrids, which I am trying to synchronize throughout the application without repeatedly querying the same data over and over again. To simplify things, each module's subscriptions and the handlers they call are located in the respective card script. Opening the card sets up the subscriptions for that module, and closing the card clears them. 
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
>> On Oct 28, 2021, at 10:07 , J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Like LC's Message Watcher?
>> 
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> On October 28, 2021 11:28:34 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Has anyone written something that will trace the flow of a command or procedure and create some kind of rudimentary flow diagram? It can be text based something like:
>>> 
>>> 	stack "Main Form"
>>> 		Openstack
>>> 			setSubscriptions
>>> 				 subGetMainData, getMainData
>>> 				 subSetMainGrids, setMainGrids
>>> 			broadcast subGetMainData
>>> 			broadcast subSetMainGrids
>>> 
>>> etc.
>>> 
>>> Bob S
>>> 
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