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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Debugging while server grabs are present.
Message-ID: <7398@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 89 16:10:04 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Little Shop of Horrors..."
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In article <427@bigsur.UUCP> darren2@bigsur.UUCP (Darren Toop) writes:
|You may not be able to type, but you can still cut and paste.
|cat the following file in scratch pad window:
|
|...
|
|Then when I get stuck, I can still cut+paste the command I want
|into the dbx input buffer and it will do the command.  Hey, nobody
|said it was elegant.  If you've got a better way, let me know.

That is 1 of the things we do.

The other is our app now has an extra #define test
throughout the source, that lets us turn off grabs for
debugging, and turn them back on for release.

Finally, as an emergency measure regarding keyboard focus, I added
a kill icon button next to the iconify icon button in the twm
title bars...


-Miles O'Neal
{yr fave backbone here}!{emory|gatech}!stiatl!meo