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ZomBfied
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Posted: 4th Jan 2003 22:09
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The error messages told you which line the error actually occurred in. But what would be even cooler is when the error is like "(blank) does not exist" it told you which (blank)"

in other words if it could tell you:

File: "c:\game\blabla.x" does not exist
or
Object 69 does not exist
or
Sound 200 does not exist
and so on.

That would be really valuable and save some time and headaches.
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MrTAToad
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Yes indeedly

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jasuk70
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As well as the Step through mode actually telling you where you really are in a program instead of saying you a next going to execute the middle part of a 3 line comment!
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levent
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It would also be nice to trap errors within programs. Statement like, ON ERROR GOTO, ON ERROR GOSUB, ON ERROR <function Name>, as well as manipulating the current error number/string. It would also be extremely useful to throw user defined errors, like, THROW ERROR <num> which could be trapped somewhere in the code.

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ZomBfied
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I'd be happy if we just had a little more helpful, more accurate error info.

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Rob K
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It would be nice if DBP could jump to the line and also tell us which source file the error occurred in.

All this error info would add to the size of the exe, but Lee could add the option to build in or leave out Debug info so that we could include it when creating test exes, but leave it out on final release.

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Kangaroo2
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It would be useful, but I was massively greatful for the improved eroor finding that DBP bring anyway. Its usually fairly obvious what you've done wrong That said sometimes it is really unhelpful

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the architect
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It would be lovely if DBPro could actually fix the errors for us and then advise us on better ways to utilise the code or even better, write it for us!!!

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MrTAToad
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Thats cheating!

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The Darthster
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If you use functions, it really messes up the error detection, the errors will be on random lines, sometimes with nothing or comments on, and the errors don't make any sense. It describes the wrong thing, sometimes 'variable is not compatible with this type' or something will come up when I've forgotten to close a loop or something.
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rapscaLLion
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It would be cool if DB actually had error reports that gave the correct line, and were actually legible... instead of "#100010: can not perform 'string' cast on type @variable @line 1" you could just say something like: "Error On Line 1: Variable variablenamehere (type, ie- string integer etc) Incompatible with variable2namehere (type)"

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MrTAToad
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Yes, the error report gets worse with multiple files... this really needs sorting...

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JamDotNET
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What would be great...

Try
<code to attempt>
Catch Ex as Exception
<code to run on error>
<ie. log the Ex description & # or show it somewhere>
Finally
<code to run regardless if error occurred or not
End Try

But maybe I should shut up until I actually get my copy of DBP - LOL

Jam
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MrTAToad
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The ON ERROR has been dismissed I think, as being too slow.

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