Hi All, Lagi Pittas wrote: > That's why I said the Function part would be good - > basically a LIVE interactive debugger - the coding > to do all the rest in a REAL programming language > rather than an animation studio or a testbed is way > out of my league - But given time and money anything > is possible...
Does exists a programming tool that provides the developer with a complete (but optional) battery of tests that run while opening the application or on user request after the application is opened? For many years, we have seen in this mail list (and previous mail list) how developers are completely baffled by applications that run fine in most computers, but fail consistently in a very few machines. Check the archives. You will find many instances of this scenario. How it is that possible at all? In theory, a program that do not find the resources needed should NOT run at all, but for some reason, programs produced in this platform try their best to work in any computer, even without confirming that it could run. Should we ask that LiveCode refuse to run if any machine does not comply at 100% with requisites? No... I think that we need better error reporting capabilities and a complete (but optional) battery of tests to run on devices that do not run our programs as expected. Could I suggest a name for this battery test? The name could be something like: "common ground" In the 90's, Common Ground was a digital paper pioneer company that competed (and lose) against Adobe Acrobat. Still today, you could find common ground digital papers on the web: http://www2.ucsc.edu/mlrg/mlrgtools.html (Windows and PPC Mac digital paper readers) http://www2.ucsc.edu/mlrg/proc3abstracts.html (Common Ground digital papers) Have a nice week! Al _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode