On 7 Apr 2006, at 02:21, J. Landman Gay wrote:
David Burgun wrote:
On 7 Apr 2006, at 02:00, J. Landman Gay wrote:
David Burgun wrote:
, but if I use the left hand panel to select a handler/function,
it marks it as dirty. Go figure!!!!!
except I just tried it again, now, same stack, same script and now
it doesn't mark it as dirty. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Right. So now...if you were trying to fix this bug, how would you
proceed? ;)
It depends on whether I wrote it in the first place or not. Assume I
didn't and have been given the source code, I'd take a look at it and
see how well it was written. If we were written really badly then I'd
re-write it using a software engineering techniques to make sure a
minimum of bugs were actually added to the code in the first place
and I'd build in instrumentation to allow the software to be verified.
If it were reasonably written, then in this case I'd add some code to
dump out the "dirty" flag (assuming that's how it's done) at keys
processing points and track it that way.
What I wouldn't do is release the code if there were a bug I could
reproduce at will (like colorization).
I am guessing that the IDE is a real hod-podge of code that's been
hacked about by a lot of different people and has gotton way too hard
to do anything on now. I have seen this before at other places. C/C++
(or low level language) programmers put together a cool high level
system/language that allows "users" to write their own "programs".
Then they need to actually use their language to implement something.
They approach the problem with the attitude, I'm C/C++ programmer so
coding in this high level language will be really easy and they just
start slapping down the code. Soon they build a monster and find it's
hard to control it! Exactly that happened years ago when I worked at
IncoTerm, they had a Data Entry System and wrote a simple language
for data verification, the low level programmers took on the job of
building systems using their creation. It was a real mess and was
eventually re-written by an applications programmer.
All the Best
Dave
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