On 21.05.2012, at 05:20, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 06:11:18PM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
>> What is the purpose of the pre-debug notifier window?
> 
> Presumably it's to give you the option of not opening a debugger.
> 
> There are probably lots of cases in which you might not want to
> open the full debugger. One example might be if you were trying to
> get the debugger working under ToolBuilder in MVC, in which case
> you might appreciate being able to at least open a simple notifier
> even though the rest of the debugger UI is not yet working.
> 
> Another case might be when you get into one of those runaway error
> conditions that starts putting up notifiers all over the place
> while you are frantically pounding on <alt><period> to try to get
> it to stop. Not that this has ever happened to me of course ;)
> 
> Dave

Also, the pre-debug notifier used to be customizable. E.g. in a deployed application, the "debug" button was replaced by a "send log" button.

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