Eric, actually, there's an even better way if you can use
jmolScriptWait(). I'll elaborate in another message. You will like it.
Eric Martz wrote:
Thanks, Bob,
I agree that the "document title" report is better than the console, and
I didn't know about it.
But I still insist that we need something one can't miss. The document
title report mechanism means I have to stare at the document title while
I'm running scripts. I can still miss an error if I am absorbed in
script development. The fact that I didn't know about the document title
report says it all!
I still argue that we need an alert that "you can't miss", even when
you're not thinking about errors or looking for them.
Netscape 4.x has a setting that opens an alert popup when a javascript
error occurs. This is fantastically useful. MSIE does the same, although
its error report is nearly useless -- but at least you know there is an
error. I have not found how to trigger these kinds of "can't miss"
alerts in Gecko browsers (Firefox) and this is a serious disadvantage in
my work. I have to manually open the javascript console, and watch it
for errors -- a situation rather like the Jmol console and not at all
satisfactory. I'm sure I've missed some.
-Eric
At 5/5/06, you wrote:
Eric Martz wrote:
I am often frustrated by errors in my scripts that cause the script
to silently stop execution (to wit my recent erroneous report of a
pickCallback failure).
I think we need a mechanism in the applet to alert developers when a
script error occurs -- an alert that cannot be overlooked.
This is certainly something I've worried about. What if when you use
set debugscript on
and you are using the applet interface, error messages are also
recorded in the DOCUMENT TITLE at the top of the page? I've been doing
this with some of my pages, and it seems to work well. This, it seems
to me fits the bill, because it is unobtrusive, obviously for the
developer (because debugscript is on), and can't be missed. Because it
is a single line, it only records the particular error you are
interested in.
Bob
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