On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 1:45 AM, Joachim Tuchel <jtuchel@objektfabrik.de> wrote:

Ben,

(this is a bit off-topic)

do you happen to know the purpose of that pre-debug-window? I must say that I find it annoying every time I get it in Pharo or VA? Why doesn't the debugger show up immediately?

I disabled that in all my images (via a startup setting). See #alwaysOpenFullDebugger�� below:

"Define some settings/preferences for GTDebugger"

(Smalltalk at: #GTGenericStackDebugger) perform: #enableDebuggerWindowDistinctColor: with: true.

(Smalltalk at: #GTGenericStackDebugger) perform: #enableStackColoring: with: true.

(Smalltalk at: #GTGenericStackDebugger) perform: #alwaysOpenFullDebugger: with: true.

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Cheers,

But your suggestion is a good one, imo. In the startup phase of an image, the image might not be ready to provide any means of reacting to a problem, so why bother showing errors that early?

What you describe should be quite easy to achieve with a handler that records and resumes errors during startup.

Joachim

Am 08.11.2017 03:54 schrieb Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com>:
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> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote:
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>> In a headless image, I'd like to do the following: if there's any error,
>> arrange to have a debugger open on the next (headful) launch, and then save
>> and quit.
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>> I'm drawing a blank - how would I do that?
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>> I explored various dead ends, the culmination of which was the
>> image-breaking:
>> actualWorkBlock on: Error do: [ [ Smalltalk snapshot: true andQuit: true ]
>> fork. Halt now ]
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>> Thanks!
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> Sorry not a solution, but you sparked a side-thought...�� To avoid sometimes being swamped by Pre-Debug windows.�� Instead of an error bringing up an individual Pre-Debug window, we could have error go into a queue which a singleton Pre-Debug window could have a view into.��This "Error Queue Viewer"�� would have on row per error, and you click on a row to open a normal debugger, much like you click <Debug> button in the existing Pre-Debug window.�� In a headless image, the Error Queue Viewer would not appear, but the error would keep being queued until the next time the Error Queue Viewer is manually opened.�� The same error-queue might provide a similar��interface point for Pharo Remote Tools, so you can see errors that occurred while you were not connected.
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> cheers -ben

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