At 01:16 PM 7/31/2013 -0500, you wrote:
It might be overkill, but I have an error routine that
a) dumps all memory, open files, etc. to a text file
b) takes a snapshot of the entire screen and saves it to an EMF file (like
a bitmap)
c) then ZIPs it all into one file to send me an email with the ZIP attached.
In theory, I like the idea of having the system email me. In practice, it's
one more moving part that can fail, because it depends on being able to
communicate with an SMTP server, and that server being able to send a
message--and could be likely to fail during a shutdown scenario. It is even
more likely to fail with my non-in-house customers, who cannot be depended
upon to maintain a functioning email server and/or internet connection, and
whose alleged "IT people" can't even figure out how to fill in the proper
blanks to set up a POP account in an email client.
I have a pretty good error logging system and I keep adding stuff to it. I
also have a generic text-file-writing facility that can be called at any
time anywhere in the program when needed to do the kind of instrumentation
we've been talking about.
But, having tried to scroll through VFP memory dumps in the past, and not
being able to make head nor tail of them, I've decided to spare myself that
particular aggravation. In a case where something may have mangled the
stack, which this might turn out to be, I don't think the most relevant
memory contents would be dump-able anyway.
Thanks.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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