Sorry, I cant advise for in Java script :( tony
On Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 9:40:54 PM UTC+11, TonyM wrote: > > Joe, > > The I think two most common debug methods, > > 1. ask smaller questions. Put a filter in a list-links and check the > results (use advanced Search Filter tab as well) > 2. Use the browser inspect to see what was generated > > You can also provide a single tiddler name or title rather than a more > complex filter to test the result if that tiddler name was generated by the > filter. > > Regards > Tony > > On Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 8:46:14 PM UTC+11, joearms wrote: >> >> >> In general, what do you do when something goes wrong. >> >> On several occasions, I've written some code (an action to be performed >> when something happens) >> but I see nothing - I expect some output but there is none. >> >> A typical case is an incorrect filter which returns nothing but I'd >> expected it to >> return something - the trouble is that I don't know it's the filter that >> has failed >> it might be something else. >> >> I don't know where or how to start debugging. >> >> If it were C or JS I'd just start adding print statements at appropriate >> places printing out >> variables >> >> I guess I'd like a <$log ....> widget that did something like >> console.log(...) in Javascript >> or printf in C -- just to know my code has been run. >> >> I don't know how the code that evaluates a widget works - if a widget >> "fails" (meaning that it >> breaks some rules of well-formed or something) I seem to get a silent >> error (meaning that there is no output) >> >> It would be nice to have some kind of error tiddler - that logged silent >> errors - so I could read it >> when debugging. >> >> Do any of these things (logs, error tracing, etc.) exist? >> >> Is there a tutorial on "How to debug a faulty TW program?" >> >> Cheers >> >> /Joe >> >> >> On Wednesday, 9 January 2019 11:53:08 UTC+1, PMario wrote: >>> >>> hi, >>> the dumpvariables macro may be an option >>> >>> https://tiddlywiki.com/#dumpvariables%20Macro >>> >>> -m >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/20f65c05-6422-4293-80b5-2f075e9c7d6c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
