Is there any advantage of using a debug constant over commenting out the body of the log?
And, to add to the confusion of output possibilities, if I want to minimize the time impact or have other constraints, I log to a variable and then do something with the variable. Dar On Feb 24, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Jacque, > > I use something like > > constant kDebug = true > > on log pText > if kDebug is true then > put pText > end if > end log > > The good thing is that if I want to change from debug to release, I just > change the kDebug constant value and the puts are gone. > > Cheers > andre > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:58 PM, J. Landman Gay > <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > >> On 2/24/12 1:55 PM, Dar Scott wrote: >> >> I suspect we are all doing this the wrong way. Maybe there are >>> debugging features or compiler optimizations that allow for better >>> ways to do this. >>> >> >> I've started doing it the way someone else suggested. I use a handler: >> >> on log pMsg >> put pMsg >> end log >> >> Then in the scripts: >> >> LOG "Message about script performance." >> >> When I want to stop logging, I just comment out the one-line body of the >> handler. If I really want to remove it all, I search for "LOG " (with >> space.) >> >> I don't know of any native LiveCode way to do it. >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> >> > > > > -- > http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. > http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode --------------------------- Dar Scott dba Dar Scott Consulting 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, home, office phone: +1 505 299 9497 For Skype and fax, please contact. d...@swcp.com Computer Programming and tinkering, often making LiveCode libraries and externals, sometimes writing associated microcontroller firmware. --------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
