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Re: Failure Assertion Exception

To: REALbasic Betas <realbasic-betas at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Failure Assertion Exception
From: Charles Yeomans <yeomans at desuetude dot com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:30:53 -0400
It is frequently not too hard to track down the cause of RB assertion failure; I've nailed more than one. As I recall, many of them were due to RS' failure to anticipate some utter stupidity on my part.

Since quality is your duty, you need to add the ability to do debugging in your code. At a minimum, you should be able to identify the method call which results in an assertion failure.

As for the dialog, it pinpoints the exact location of the assertion failure. If you can tell RS how you got there, they can frequently fix the assertion failure.

Charles Yeomans


On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 03:05  PM, Lo Saeteurn wrote:

I have a great feature request for those of you who are like me that is sick and tired of those failure assertion that pops up everywhere, but nearly impossible to fix. With a failure assertion exception, we can finally track down where it happens instead of quitting or stuck trying to track it down. It'll help us fix our code and help Real Software fix the failure assertion since we know what the cause is by tracking it down.

Don't know why RS had that annoying dialog in the first place that helps no one!

I'll get it sent right away!

Regards,
Lo Saeteurn
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Lo Saeteurn
CEO Mien Software
Quality is Our Duty!
http://www.miennetwork.com





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