Debugging

[Kurt Griffin]

So, those of you who were beta testers, I have one question - has MACR 
continued with the short error messaging as a default, requiring us to 
either to put an ini file on our CDs that allows full lingo error 
messages, or in the case of shockwave, makes us walk some schlub 
through installing a shockwave ini file, in order to get a descriptive 
bug track? One of my pet peeves - developers who want their apps to 
fail with a simple "script error, continue?" ought to be the ones to 
jump through hoops to make that error short error message appear... the 
rest of us would like some clue as to what makes the app fail. I can't 
tell you how many hours I've wasted tracking down the source of a bug 
that only happens for certain users on certain machines in shockwave. 
It's not as big a deal on CDs, because you can include an ini file. 
Relying on a Marketing-tard to get a shockwave ini file up and running 
which lets your app say "object expected" instead of "contact the 
developer" is a real pain in the nether-regions.

-Kurt

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