On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:29:33PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > On 03 Oct 2002 15:49:07 -0500, FVWM CVS wrote: > > > > Added files: > > modules/FvwmDebug: FvwmGtkDebug.1 FvwmGtkDebug.in FvwmNewDebug.1 > > FvwmNewDebug.in > > > > Log message: > > * new modules FvwmNewDebug and FvwmGtkDebug, the text and graphical > > debuggers > > I plan to remove the current FvwmDebug (and rename FvwmNewDebug) later > unless you see a good reason not to. > FvwmDebug is not currently up to > date anyway and has some problems that FvwmNewDebug does not: > > * it requires maintaining > * it does not support all argument types well (like pixels, booleans) > * the output is not very readable/parsable
Oh yes, dump it, I am all for it! And while you are at it, remove the debug capabilities from FvwmCommand as well which also require maintenance and are seriously out of date. > FvwmNewDebug and FvwmGtkDebug are both fully generic, i.e. they will > support any new/changed packets without modification. Of course for this > to happen, structures in perllib/FVWM/EventNames.pm should be up to date, > please actually update this file when you add/change current module > packets. This class is used in all perl-based modules. In the future it > may be auto-generated, but since Perl library is more complete in this > respect than C module library, it is currently impossible. > > FvwmGtkDebug is not a regular static module, it is a pretty useful > dynamical application, it requires Gtk-Perl installed, please test it. > FvwmNewDebug does not require anything special. I plan to add more > functionality to FvwmGtkDebug (Quit button :-), currently simply close a > window) and FvwmNewDebug (--log file option). Both support setting the > initial mask and xmask using command line options --mask and --xmask. > > The reason to leave FvwmDebug for now is for reference and since it > currently has -w flag that is not yet supported. There is also a small > problem with M_RESTACK arguments that I will solve in perllib soon. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
