Noam's (see below) is the first description I have ever seen of this thing might
conceivably make it work for me. As most other newcomers to CF I've had too much other
stuff to learn and haven't had time to tinker with something that isn't as intuitive
as the rest of the CF universe.
--
Lars Blackmore
The web guy @ the IRC
http://www.theIRC.org
"How many roads must a man travel down before he admits he is
lost?"
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/10/00 05:05AM >>>
First set the RDS on the server, then enter a password for studio access in
the admin page.
In studio connect to the RDS then The key is setting the debug mappings:
Debug - Development mappings - get all the paths correct
And
Debug - Debug settings - correct the URL to the debug start page.
And Voila it's flying. (please fasten your seat belts :)
After all, that's part of the beauty of this whole CF thing: you go into Studio, fire
up the SQL editor, put together a query, and presto! it just works. Then you get
ambitious, your code goes sour, but you figure, "oh, but here's the built-in
debugger", and you fire it up, expecting great things... and it just sits there.
Nothing happens. Zip. You ask it to track variables for you (and since the menu point
isn't grayed out and you've set up your server mappings at this point, you figure it's
gotta work) - and the screen just remains blank as your code executes. You prod it
with a stick (yes, yes, I know, at this point you should pull out the manual and learn
all about it, but...) - and still nothing. Then you give up, and start inserting
<CFABORTS> and <CFCATCH>'s all over the place. And you grump a little.
If Allaire's manuals or Ben's books had a page that elaborated a little on Noam's
description below, people like me would probably be tempted to spend that bit of time
to get the debugger up and running. Having said that, I read Steve's comment about the
debugger really only being useful when you've got all kinds of bells and whistles in
your code, so maybe we don't even need to bother? After all, a lot of us seem to be
cranking out code just fine w/o the use of the debugger.
My two cents worth.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To Unsubscribe visit
http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebarRsts&bodyRsts/fusebox or send a message
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
