[Laszlo-dev] "data loading can hang forever in SOLO requests" issue...

[Elliot Winard]

Flex comes with `fdb`, a command-line gdb-esque debugger that works with the
debug builds of the Flash Player.

It's *hugely* helpful in tracking down bugs.
-e

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Henry Minsky wrote:

> I wouldn't depend to heavily on this behavior, it seems like something
> Macromedia will fix when they get around to it.
> 
> It would be great to have a way to suspend and step through an app, but the
> free flash player doesn't have any documented or even known undocumented way
> to do this. The Flash development environment that you buy from Macromedia
> has a special debug-enabled version of the player, but we can't use that,
> and the protocol for controlling it isn't publicly documented either.
> 
> 
> On 9/25/05, Benjamin Cox <ben at insourcery.com> wrote:
> >
> > There is an issue filed in JIRA at:
> > http://openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-437 with the above-mentioned title.
> > Though this can clearly cause enormous problems in production, there is a
> > dev-time use case for this behavior.
> > I run my server in a debugger, and make extensive use of breakpoints,
> > etc., while debugging issues between Laszlo and the data coming from the
> > server. If we make it so a hanging data request is ignored or timed out, and
> > Laszlo carries on, I won't be able to rely on my Laszlo app waiting until
> > I'm done on the server before trying to, say, render all the data.
> >
> > I'm wondering if a fix to this issue might be able to include a setting to
> > turn on "hanging requests"? Though I suppose there are other ways to achieve
> > my goals, Laszlo has made it awfully easy so far ;-)
> >
> > I'm also curious whether this issue is _strictly_ for SOLO apps. I ask
> > because there was an old mailing list thread at
> > http://www.openlaszlo.org/pipermail/laszlo-dev/2005-April/000877.htmlregarding the development of a proper debugger for laszlo (with
> > breakpoints). It occurs to me that there's some vague chance this "bug" be
> > leveraged to make implementing this behavior a little more viable... am I
> > crazy?
> >
> > Ben
> >
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