[Hopperxx] How do you debug a projector?

[Valentin]

Am 2/19/2018 um 7:51 PM schrieb Buzz Kettles:
>  ​​historically there was a way to open a message window from a projector
> 
> message=1 in the .ini maybe?

History hasn't changed anything lately, in this regard:

You can (still) show a message window in a projector session either by

a) explicitely calling

  _player.debugPlaybackEnabled = 1

or (verbose Lingo)

  the debugPlaybackEnabled = 1

in your projector's Lingo code,

b) or, at runtime, by putting a text file called "lingo.ini" next to the
projector, that contains that same code inside a "startUp" handler, i.e.
e.g.:

on startUp
  _player.debugPlaybackEnabled = 1
end

Maybe - I only have vague memories - some long time ago it was also
possible to open the message window by adding a line to
<projectorname>.ini, but if yes, that doesn't work anymore.

But what Jim actually meant by "debug a projector" is to find out why it
doesn't work at all (e.g. because some crucial xtra is missing), and in
this case the message window doesn't really help much.

Valentin