[Laszlo-dev] Debug.backtrace not working?

[P T Withington]

Yes, I thought I had such a bug, but this is the closest I can find:

http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7176

I'll expand upon that...

On 2009-01-14, at 17:38EST, Max Carlson wrote:

> Does it make sense to harmonize this for swf9, e.g. add an API in  
> swf9 for:
> Debug.write(new Error('I want a stack trace  
> please').getStackTrace()) )
> ?
>
> P T Withington wrote:
>> That doc is stale.
>> You can now enable backtracing in the developer console. No  
>> recompile needed.
>> Section 12.3 is correct. When backtrace is enabled, every debut  
>> message records a backtrace. You inspect the message and then  
>> inspect it's bactrace element to see the full trace.
>> You should never need to call backtrace() directly. (But if you do,  
>> all that does is create a backtrace, it does not output anything.)
>> On Jan 10, 2009, at 13:10, Sarah Allen <sarah at ultrasaurus.com> wrote:
>>> Following the docs: http://www.openlaszlo.org/lps4.2/docs/developers/debugging.html#d0e124973
>>> I was trying to use backtrace to figure out where one of my  
>>> objects is getting instantiated unexpectedly, but I don't see  
>>> anything in the debugger.  I can see the same behavior (or lack  
>>> thereof) in a simple test case.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug or am I confused?
>>>
>>> <canvas>
>>>
>>> <class name="foo">
>>>   <method name="init">
>>>       Debug.write("init");
>>>       Debug.backtrace();
>>>   </method>
>>> </class>
>>>
>>> <foo/>
>>>
>>> </canvas
>>>
>>> Debugger just says:
>>> init
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sarah
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Max Carlson
> OpenLaszlo.org