[Encore] [EnCore] EnCore 4 to 5

[Daniel Jung]

Jean-Marc Giffin wrote:
> 1. What are some easy ways to transfer objects over from 4 to 5, 

There is no other way than the way it has always been. You got the 
recipe from someone else I see.

> 2. How do I get TraceBacks running again? In 4, whenever something 
> went wrong, it would do a whole TraceBack .... thing of the errors 
> so I could see what's going on. 5 doesn't seem to be doing that, 

v5 prints out all player:notify strings, i.e., everything addressed to 
the player from the DATABASE will be printed out in the HTML chat.

Now, there are some cases where the SERVER notifies the player 
(connection) about things that went wrong. Those notifications are not 
channeled through the database, thus are not part of the moo world, in a 
way. You may read those server strings in the JAVA console, as all 
strings are sent through there, both database strings and server 
strings. Only the database strings make it to the HTML chat, as it is a 
pure database thing, and not a server chat any more.

> 3. Any quick way of putting the programming pages back to frames, 
> [...]  I have to keep
> scrolling down pretty far just to choose another verb or property... 

There is no quick way to get back the frames, i.e., no switch to push or 
pull. The Program Editor is completely redesigned from scratch, and like 
all web apps frame free - for a number of reasons.

As you may have noticed, there is a link "new instance" at the very top. 
Clicking that link will give you an additional window. Have you tried to 
call a window and resize it so it displays all verbs, then right click 
on the verb or prop link in the lists and choose "open in another 
window"? That would leave the window and the positioning of the list 
where it was, while you may look at the long code chunks in the other 
window.

- Daniel