From: "ramoynihan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If I want to display more than one debug message, I use the DebugXY > function to place additional messages at other parts of the display. > DebugT functions allow debug output of short text strings. > > (if any of you programmers out there are ROFL at what I just wrote, > I'd be more than willing to entertain any well-meaning advice on how > to debug the right way. And for the not-so-well-meaning,... I've got > a pretty thick skin... have at it!) > Heh, reminds me of the work I had to do when debugging a Handspring- -based GSM device that would drop the debug connection as soon as the serial comms kicked in. I built a simple logging system that wrote to a database. IMHO this work is worth doing because it then becomes available for other purposes, in my case the most obvious purpose being switching it on when a difficult client was testing the code so that his "It crashed!!!!!!" message could be replied to by "In your backup folder will be a file called blah.pdb, please email me that file".
I always had this feeling that I was doing things the dumb newbie way but after spending half a day of tight deadline time trying to work around the problem I decided to go with a solution that was gauranteed to produce a result for me after a certain amount of work. That's certainly not true for trying to resolve debugger problems. "Hi, my name is Chris and I use debug printfs". :-) Chris Tutty -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
