Debugging Layout problems

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Sat Dec 29 22:03:45 UTC 2001


On Wednesday 26 December 2001 10:01 pm, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I have a bug in some layout code which is bringing up the emergency
> evaluator.  Because of this, I can not bring up an ordinary debugger.
>
> I realize there may be no silver bullets, but does anyone have any
> suggestions for getting to the bottom of this?  I'm in a morphic
> problem, and the problem is at least a bit subtle because the object
> displays properly the first time.
>
> Here are some strategies that have occurred to me.  Which horse to bet
> on?

> 5) Do old fashioned debugging with trace statements to a file.  Aside
> from the other problems, I'm not sure if buffering would prevent the
> interesting stuff from just before the problem from getting out.

If you quit from the Emergency Evaluator, I believe that files will be closed 
and flushed.

Use

Smalltalk snapshot: false andQuit: true

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Ned Konz
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