[Coco] Re: M.E.S.S. video window acquired

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 07 November 2003 13:12, Roger Taylor wrote:
>At 08:05 AM 11/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>Roger Taylor writes:
>>>I am guessing that option would have to be added in later than
>>> sooner. If it's real easy to enable like from a simple switch,
>>> then sure.  And it would be up to M.E.S.S. to do all of the debug
>>> functions, right?
>>
>>The switch is in already in there in debug builds; it is -debug.
>>Another possibility would be to add a set of windows messages that
>> allow an external app to intercept and implement the debugger
>>functionality.  Imagine debugging an app in your IDE, and using the
>> same windows both to edit and to step through code like you can in
>> most IDEs today.
>
>Step through the source code or the machine code?  Also, I haven't
> seen this M.E.S.S. debug mode, so I don't quite follow how an
> external app could intercept and implement the debugger
> functionality.  But, if it's doable, then I will give it some
> thought.
>thx

One possible scenario would be to model the debugger after os9p4, and 
surround that call with some env conditional tests.

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