Just chiming in on the debugging in a web page which might also help here since you loose the ability to interact.
I have written a universal E-mailing program that can be called from any UniData program. It will work with both simple text or HTML depending on how much effort the programmer wants to exert. There are several simple INCLUDES that store COMMON info so that I can just plug this into any subroutine I want. Starting with my top-most subroutine (the one called by Redback), I INCLUDE my setup code and set a COMMON flag as either null (disable debugging E-mail) or with the name of the ASP web page (enabling the debugging E-mail). At critical points, I test if the E-mailing flag is turned on, and if so, create an E-mail with all the critical info I might want at that point, then send the E-mail to myself. This E-mail includes the initiating web page and all subroutines that have been called to get to the current subroutine. This same COMMON and INCLUDE code is used in any/all called subroutine that I want to test, and each of these does the same test to see if debugging E-mail is turned on or not. This has been a lifesaver and time saver on MANY occations. A single web page may generate many debugging E-mails and from these, I can figure out where my logic is going astray. Granted, I could write this info to a temp file and read it, but I have found the E-mailing to be a far superior solution, esp. if I take the time to make it with full HTML formatting. The best thing about this is that I can enable/disable all the debugging E-mails for a web page with a single line change in the top most subroutine. Once I have added this code, I never remove it (just disable it). This allows me to turn it back on when another change needs to be made to the application or some other condition occurs that I need to track. Hopefully, folks find this technique useful. It has saved me more times than I care to mention. John Israel Sr. Programmer/Analyst Dayton Superior Corporation ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
