Re: easy display system?

On 07/16/2013 09:54 PM, Alan Baljeu wrote:
> I've got a nice, but complex system working, for which I
> now feel I need a higher-level view for tracing its operations.  
> I've figured at various points in execution certain lists that 
> would be useful to see sometimes.  Currently the only way 
> I know is to read and write to the console.  Certainly very 
> easy, but I wonder if there's another way that's also easy, 
> but not so scrolly.  Plain message boxes would not be sufficient, 
> as I'd need persistent access and copy/paste.

Not sure what you want.  Select specific messages or selectively
(maybe interactively) dig into the details of messages?

Selecting messages is fairly well supported using debug/3 for
printing them and debug/1 or nodebug/1 for defining which ones
are actually printed.  The Windows console offers Debug/Debug messages
in the menu, which provides a (simple) GUI interface.  Interactively
digging into terms is (in a limited way) provided by the GUI debugger.
You can also call this window yourself by loading

	:- use_module(library(trace/viewterm)).

and then call view_term/1 or view_term/2.  Of course, you know
about the portray hook.

There is enough stuff around to help you.  Something really fancy
and well integrated is still welcome ...

	Cheers --- Jan


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