Hi Jim and all,
IMHO, you guys are making it too hard.
I've intentionally developed a habit of always putting test info '& cr after
msg'. Then when I'm done, I can easily find all occurrences of 'after msg' and
delete'em.
No, it's not infallible. And sometimes I cheat (like to clear msg at the start
of a 'put after' sequence). But I make my living writing software with
Revolution, and I don't have any self-inflicted misery from rogue 'puts'. To me
that says something about the effectiveness of the approach.
I admit that the 'habit thing' may not be sufficient for every situation. Most
of the time I'm the only programmer on my projects, so I generally don't have to
collaborate with others at the code level. Your mileage may vary. Ask your
doctor if the Habit Way is right for you... :o)
My $0.02...
Thanks -
Phil Davis
Jim Ault wrote:
On 12/1/06 3:36 AM, "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Has got me before now! They can be sooooo hard to find when you are
writing lots of stuff to the message box for debugging, and then
forget to delete just one of them! This is especially true in a
library stack, I had a rouge "put xxx" in a library that took me ages
to track down, I eventually found it in a in function a few levels
away from the main API Call!
I think an option that turned off the "put xxx" shortcut would be a
good idea!
Chipp Walters used to have something on his site that would do this. Took a
quick look and did not find it. Check the archives, but I think the Altuit
site has changed so much that old info will be obsolete.
Perhaps Chipp may know where it is hiding.
PS I always use 'into msg' or 'after msg' so I can find them later.
For a short time I always added "!!" like
put fld output & "!!"
but got out of the habbit.
Of course another way is to make your own lib handler
putMsg "flag upperTier is "& fUpperTier
on putMsg txtStr
put txtStr
end putMsg
then turn off the 'put txtStr' line
or find the putMsg lines
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
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