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Hendrik van Niekerk
26-Apr-2005, 02:58 PM
How about when an error pops up when an application starts up and in
Debug mode eg you get.....

Invalid Massage, set_only_secure

Technical Details
Error Number: 98
Line Number: 50239

with the OK button.

Feature:
Add another button that when clicked takes you directly to the source line?

Saves having to remember the line number then having to go to the task
bar selecting "Source" then selecting "Command line", by this time the
error box is gone from sight, (I know there is "Alt + G) and then
entering the number then clicking OK phew...

Hendrik van Niekerk

Garret Mott
26-Apr-2005, 04:03 PM
I'll second this one!

I'd also add an easily toggled switch to the debugger so as to be able to
step through my code only, skipping the DAW packages.

Thanks Hendrik,

Garret

"Hendrik van Niekerk" <hendrik@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:5pM2kopSFHA.1276@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> How about when an error pops up when an application starts up and in Debug
> mode eg you get.....
>
> Invalid Massage, set_only_secure
>
> Technical Details
> Error Number: 98
> Line Number: 50239
>
> with the OK button.
>
> Feature:
> Add another button that when clicked takes you directly to the source
> line?
>
> Saves having to remember the line number then having to go to the task bar
> selecting "Source" then selecting "Command line", by this time the error
> box is gone from sight, (I know there is "Alt + G) and then entering the
> number then clicking OK phew...
>
> Hendrik van Niekerk

chuck atkinson
16-May-2005, 06:32 AM
I second both of these as well. And also something that might not be very
easy - but needs to be done esp for the "New to VDF" developers... (not for
me! I've been around since 1983)

A new developer trying to find a problem is forced to wade through package
names that may or may not have anything to do with the actual classes ...
for instance if a new developer is trying to find out what is happening with
a dbList object ... how does he know to open dfsellst.pkg? And there are
even worse examples...

Again not easy, but would it be possible somehow to show the classes in the
pulldown and then when clicked - open the right pkg file?

My $0.02

Chuck Atkinson

"Garret Mott" <garret@automatesoftware.com> wrote in message
news:qrky1NqSFHA.1272@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> I'll second this one!
>
> I'd also add an easily toggled switch to the debugger so as to be able to
> step through my code only, skipping the DAW packages.
>
> Thanks Hendrik,
>
> Garret
>
> "Hendrik van Niekerk" <hendrik@mchsi.com> wrote in message
> news:5pM2kopSFHA.1276@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> > How about when an error pops up when an application starts up and in
Debug
> > mode eg you get.....
> >
> > Invalid Massage, set_only_secure
> >
> > Technical Details
> > Error Number: 98
> > Line Number: 50239
> >
> > with the OK button.
> >
> > Feature:
> > Add another button that when clicked takes you directly to the source
> > line?
> >
> > Saves having to remember the line number then having to go to the task
bar
> > selecting "Source" then selecting "Command line", by this time the error
> > box is gone from sight, (I know there is "Alt + G) and then entering the
> > number then clicking OK phew...
> >
> > Hendrik van Niekerk
>
>