Re: WinXP, AS 5.8.6, and Tk::Configure in perl -d

Dean Arnold wrote:
> While doing some debugging with Tk::DynaTabFrame
> under the subject configuration, I'm getting some
> nasty errors erupting out of Tk::Configure when it
> calls croak($@) at line 47. I don't understand
> why its calling croak anyway, as the options being
> specified are perfectly valid, and everything
> runs fine outside of hte debugger.
> 
> When I comment out that croak() line
> and replace with a warn($@) it runs fine (tho it does
> print the warnings). Furthermore,
> when I run wo/ the debugger, and no changes to Tk::Configure,
> it runs fine as well.
> 
> Is this a known problem, or have I messed up Tk::DTF's
> Populate() somehow so it chokes in Tk::Configure ?
> I vaguely recall there being some admonition wrt
> the sequence of events in Populate() when inside the debugger...
> 
> TIA,
> Dean Arnold
> Presicient Corp.
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Which debugger?  The Komodo debugger *used to* modify the value
of $@ without localizing it when calling a sub, but that was fixed
when Komodo 3.1 went out.  It's possible that other debuggers
are not localizing $@ in their DB::sub sub.

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Eric Promislow ([email protected])
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