MC IDE - next steps

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

I vote for Richard as President next year! oops, Im not a US citizen...

I will gladly maintain the script editor and documentation but one thing 
I came across this morning lifted a serious problem: engine info...

When the MC engine is changed (like 2.4->2.5), there are changes left and 
right about how are 
debugged or handled. One of these was the infamous variable watcher (so 
called debugger!)

It is essential that we know about these changes which was rarely the case 
before. 
Most changes are undocumented - not in the doc or the read-me other than 
for mentioning them
as major features... 

Here's the best example:

One thing puzzled me regarding the variable watcher: there is no display 
for arrays. 
Exploring that script, I found a debugdo() hander (much like the do 
handler) - which 
I just couldn't find documented or scripted anywhere... Editing Scripts 
while
debugging is really something misterious and can be crash prone!!! (Never 
close a 
script window when it's in debug mode!!!) 

It took me two hours to find out that you couldn't use local variables as 
a storage 
while working in the VW... And it's mostly all in Dynamic scripting! And 
since you 
are in the VW, you can't debug it! ;)

Fun stuff!

Nonetheless, I managed to make a variable watcher that handles display of 
both 
numeric[5,3] and associative["metacard"] arrays! 

Modifying them is left for later but I should release it soon ;)

So how can we get all this documentation? And keep it up to date?
We are very fortunate though to have MCTools as an opensource stack!

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Xavier Bury
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