[haiku-appserver] Re: [Haiku-commits] r14820 - haiku/trunk/src/servers/app

  • From: Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-appserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:44:21 +0100

On 2005-11-10 at 22:02:19 [+0100], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Adi Oanca <adioanca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Yes, but the debugging itself needs to be fixed. I saw it getting
> > > into an
> > > endless loop. The problem is that the root layer is invalidated for
> > > displaying the debug info, but this invalidation can cause it to
> > > print
> > > another debug info. At least this is how I explain what I saw.
> >     I agree. It happened to me also.
> >     This means we must find another way to invalidate and area from
> > Layer's
> > Draw method.
> 
> How about simply dumping the error message to either stdio (in test
> mode) or serial output (when run on Haiku or qemu)?

The whole point of on-screen debugging was to help people without the 
ability to serial debug. You can just open DebugInfoManager.h and change 
the #define at the top of the file. When testing in Quemu, this is of 
course less of a problem. Maybe I should set that up. :-)

Best regards,
-Stephan



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