On Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 7:29:47 PM UTC+1, Joe Armstrong wrote: > I have a pretty good idea how to debug almost any language by writing > functions calling the code > > and adding print statements to the code. But I'm unclear as to how I > would do this in TW. >
Well, as far as I understand, TW works on a few layers that can go wrong depending on what you do. There's the backend JS that is supposed to be hidden, there are the widgets as a functional layer with fundamental building blocks, the macros are merely text-substitutions not actual functions. But wikitext also allow for direct use of html-elements and CSS. The browser inspector is probably the only real *tool* that you can use to investigate things. I think the RSOE (Red Screen of Embarrassment) exclusively is for JS and it usually gives a clue to what is wrong. There are a few build in error codes that I believe are for wikitext - I'm primarily thinking of when a bracket is missing in filters. BTW, you may find my SideEditor <http://sideeditor.tiddlyspot.com/>of use. I use it all the time for testing stuff. It has similarities with the editor preview function. I wanted to take a few tiddlers i don't understand and add a few print > statement to clarify > > what is happening - is this possible? > ... it depends ... ;-) If I take a maco I think what happens is that it returns some text which is > > then rescanned - it would be nice to a get a trace of what get called and > what the > > return values are (same for widgets and JS code) > Macros are pure text substitution. I'm not sure what you mean with "rescanned". You can check global variables with this syntax "$(variable)$". If you give us your actual wikitext code it would be much easier to help you. <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/44645908-152a-4d42-ae39-c35947f9d066%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
