At 12:22 PM 2/21/2003 -0800, Jim Kleckner wrote:
Could someone explain how "Listen to actor" should be used for debugging? I would expect it to trace the events into and out of a composite entity but it brings up an empty window for me and it stays that way.
Actors can optionally issue debug messages, typically using code like the following:
if (_debugging) {
_debug( message here );
}However, most actors don't, so listening to a random actor isn't that useful...
It would be better if, at a minimum, the base classes used code like this to report invocation of the key action methods (prefire(), fire(), postfire()).
There are some more complicated actors that do report useful things here (like Clock).
You can right click on a port and select "listen to port" to watch the data in and out of it.
Edward
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