Hi all, I'm new to the Shoes adventure game, but just like my Shoe-fitting pal William Morgan, I too was confused when Shoes silently ignored exceptions on poor ol' me.
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.shoes/1513) In my case, I was setting background to "lightgray" instead of "lightgrey", which results in silent fail. (I actually started digging into the Shoes C code to look for the error...) Mr. Morgan posted a command-line patch, but here's an alternative. It's not quite production ready for the git depo, but it demonstrates the behavior I'd like Shoes to have. http://gist.github.com/7199 Inspired by Firebug, if you run with DebugShoes rather than Shoes (see the gist link above), DebugShoes will plot a small status error bar at the bottom of the screen that says "3 Errors", with a clickable link to the Console. I think it's pretty important for Shoes's target audience to have error messages be readily available, and hope that a similar kind of behavior will be in Shoooes soon! (Perhaps on for debug builds, off if some constant or somesuch is defined.) ~L
