[Xerte-dev] Re: Debugging Xerte

[Julian Tenney]

Exactly, because the swf in the browser can talk to the swf in the editor. No sarcasm, I've honestly never thought about that.

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 11 May 2012 11:41
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Debugging Xerte

caching the local connection (unless sarcasm)

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I found out recently that if you have Xerte open with a debug window open,
> then publish your project, when you run your project in a web browser it
> will output the debug statements to the debug window.
>
>
>
> Blimey. That has never occurred to me.
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp
> Johnathan
> Sent: 11 May 2012 11:29
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Debugging Xerte
>
>
>
> I found out recently that if you have Xerte open with a debug window open,
> then publish your project, when you run your project in a web browser it
> will output the debug statements to the debug window.
>
>
>
> I was thinking more of something that would stop and step through operation
> for situations in which Xerte dies on you. So that you could put in break
> points.
>
>
>
> Having slept on my particular programming problem I now have some useful
> ideas were to start looking for the offending code - time to go looking is
> another matter :-(
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
> Johnathan
>
>
>
> On 11 May 2012 08:55, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> getURL('javascript:alert(' + yourDebugMessage + ');');
>
>
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp
> Johnathan
> Sent: 10 May 2012 23:09
> To: Xerte Developers Discussion List
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Debugging Xerte
>
>
>
> I am updating the scenario connector page to make it easier to use and have
> hit a situation where adding a particular xml element in the xwd form
> results in xerte locking up.
>
>
>
> Is there any way of executing a preview or publishing the project and then
> viewing it in a browser such that it is possible to use some kind of
> debugging tool so that I can trace the progress of the code?
>
>
>
> Of have I got to do it the hard way and start commenting out blocks of code
> :-(
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
> Johnathan
>
>
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