ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

[Matthias Rebbe]

Well spoken, Andre !

Am 20.07.2011 um 17:45 schrieb Andre Garzia:

> irgh,
> 
> Hey Guys,
> 
> Is it friday 13th here? What is happening? Mark made an mobile application
> that he likes and some other people find useful, props to him. Others don't
> see the need, that is ok. Mark is not forcing anyone to buy anything,
> actually, for someone to want his app, this person needs to know more than
> day-1 livecode, it needs to know about LiveCode error codes.
> 
> I see the utility in his application. In some stuff I did, I allow
> exceptions to bubble up in the following manner: I try to figure out what is
> happening and if it is recoverable, if it is not, then, I present my own
> error message followed by the error codes. Also if you are doing LiveCode
> Server, sometimes, the engine will spit out error codes, I don't have a
> recipe but it happened to me before.
> 
> I know enough LiveCode to have my own systems to deal with it but none of my
> systems work on mobile. I can see someone not in front of his machine, using
> this.
> 
> I don't think it is fair to accuse Mark of exploring the naivete of people.
> He is just offering a mobile app for some bucks. For someone that does not
> have a RevMobile license and thus can't recreate those two lines, this might
> be useful.
> 
> I think there is a terrible miscommunication going on here. Richard wanted
> to know if there was any standard case where the errordialog from LiveCode
> would fail to display human readable errors. He wanted that because he
> wanted to file a QA report at the quality center since LiveCode own
> dialogbox should handle everything. Mark created an application for the
> cases where the error codes are not passing thru LiveCode dialogboxes (maybe
> their are caught in a try/catch block) and the developer did not pick the
> errors from the list. There is no harm here guys.
> 
> For errors people always had options:
> * Let livecode error dialog translate them
> * use one of the web front ends available (Mark had one, Jacque had one)
> * rolll your own
> * don't care, panic, rollback and recover (<-- my personal tools are like
> this)
> 
> Now what started at as a very good thread where one developer launched a
> product and another developer asked if there was a case where the built-in
> tools failed, derailed into a very bad thread that will soon be locked
> because the internet is not meant for arguments but for discussions.
> 
> come on guys, we just launched 4.6.3. The new LiveCode Server is around the
> corner and many scripts need to be patched. Mobile is growing and 2012 is
> the Year of the LiveCode RevLet!!!!! (I Want To Believe).
> 
> We have better things to do then to keep this thread on. Products are like
> standards, when you don't like them, you just don't use them. Can we go back
> to a normal sunny day in Rio?
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