Debugging the IDE

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Nov 3 20:54:18 EDT 2016


Bob Sneidar wrote:

 > ...I set the global gRevDevelopment to true so I can step through
 > the scripts.

That should not be necessary.


 > To my horror I am finding a number of errors where a handler is being
 > called that didn't exist, but it never shows up because if
 > gRevDevelopment is false, plugins silently fail.

How?

Plugins are just stacks like any other, they just happen to live in a 
Plugins folder.

Was that a direct call, or using "dispatch"?  Dispatch is designed to 
allow calls to handlers that don't exist.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web
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