Re: [Gnumed-devel] review of possible checkin.

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 11:15, catmat wrote:
> Ian Haywood wrote:
[snip]
>   Yes there are log levels, and possibly filtering of logging based on
> originating module, but I haven't worked out how to do that at the
> configuration level ,environment level or  the command line level ( is
> it documented?).
> One of the main reasons development is so slow is there is no step through
> debugger, or the technique for using one is not widely known, and that
> debugging via the log is so painful because the technique for log 
> filtering is not widely known.
Maybe one day we will hack a little gui that make the log more readable. I 
image a tree based desgin with code/log folding.

eric3 does code folding nicely as do many other editors. I might be wrong but 
maybe for kate or emacs all it takes to write definitions for the log file 
format. If eric/kate/emacs treat the logfile as code like they treat known 
programming languages it should automatically give you all the benefit you 
get from using kate/emacs for coding.

From my blurred words you can tell I don't really know what I am takling about 
but if you find out let me know :-)

> Maybe the howto for debugging should be in 
> the wiki. The howto should be more concrete than just guidelines, "one
> should use LogException() because it prints out a stacktrace in the log
> where the path to an exception can be traced through line numbers in each
> module file."
If you don't mind KDE or QT than take a look at 'eric'
http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html

Why? Because it automatically opens the file that causes the exception at the 
line the exception occured. Actually it opens all of the files/modules on the 
way to line in question.  

You can execute/debug a file step by step.

>
> Is anyone using a tool/editor that can link a log files  path
> statements to  a
> editor to auto-open the module file concerned at the line number?
> (maybe one should be written).
>
> gmEMRBrowser also seems to have print statements for debugging.
>
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