On Jun 5, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Got it - there are actually two temporary files - one in the
directory where the cdxml file is (called CLASSTEXT.py) and another
in the temp directory, and I was looking at the wrong one.
Actually, CLASSTEXT.py is for debugging purposes only. It is not
actually run by Dabo. I left in the code to write it to disk so that
when people were testing the designer, they could send me the file so
that I could figure out what was wrong.
Suggestion: instead of calling it CLASSTEXT.py, called it
appname_classtext.py - so the cdxml file is called myproject.cdxml,
then the python file will be called myproject_classtext.py ; this
would let me have multiple apps in the same directory without
stomping over each others' files.
See above.
Q: why not put this all in classtext.py ? What's the benefit of
having a separate temp file ?
Even if there's a benefit in having a separate file - why not make
it be a user-chosen name, within the same directory. That way you
don't lose it if you clear out your temp directory.
Classes are created in memory, and have no disk presence (outside of
the cdxml file). The only reason to create the temp file for the code
was so that people could step through the code to debug it. Putting
dabo.trace() into the code when it was all in memory provided no way
to see the actual code; you just got line numbers. So I created the
hack that changes cdxml code into stub calls that call the extracted
methods in the temp file. While this is far from perfect, at least it
allows for some debugging. The eventual goal is to be able to debug
from the Dabo IDE; I'm hoping that either the enhancements to
integrating Winpdb that are being worked on the PyxIDEs project, or
the Summer of Code project to improve the separation of the pdb
debugger from its interface will allow me to get rid of this hack
altogether. But for now, this is the compromise.
-- Ed Leafe
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-- http://dabodev.com
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