On Oct 17, 2005, at 12:47 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Charles Hartman wrote:
I know this is a dumb question -- but I'm having a hard time
debugging a modal dialog box. What am I missing?
When the box is full, the "Done" button processes its data (and
sends it off to a MySQL database). But debugging the mouseUp
script for that button isn't working -- because when I try to
stop at a breakpoint in it, though the script does stop, I can't
click in it, or in anything else at all: menus, message box, the
Done button itself . . . so there's nothing to do but Force Quit,
which doesn't exactly give me the information I need for debugging.
Is there some method for debugging modals that I don't know
about? Can't find anything in the docs . . .
Unless you have put in some kind of escape route for debugging, you
are stuck. Modals just don't allow anything else to happen until
they are dismissed.
Ah, OK. The cost of the app (stack) and IDE not being distinct, for
the sake of avoiding compilation. Hm.
Fortunately, Rev has a built-in escape from these. Hold down
Command-Control-Shift (on Mac, anyway) and click on the stack;
you'll get the contextual menu that allows you to change the stack
style to something other than modal. Then you won't have to force-
quit.
Excellent; that's what I need.
While debugging, I usually call the stack in some other mode until
I know it works; toplevel, or modeless, or anything besides modal.
Once it is working correctly, then I change the code back to modal.
Note that modal dialogs are
universally hated and shouldn't be used unless absolutely
necessary. ;)
I got into a situation in which a dialog had to be modal, and what it
did *as* modal was what I needed to debug . . . Which isn't exactly
*why* I've abandoned that trial design for this app, but it does make
me glad I did.
Charles Hartman
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