[L2Ork-dev] tracecall

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Ok, I got a nice tracecall prototype going.

Given this:

[bang(
|
[int 42]
|
[tracecall]
|
[print]

You get this to the console:

print: list tracecall float 42
print: list int bang
print: list messresponder bang
print: list canvas mouse 112 33 1 0
print: list guiconnect mouse 112 33 1 0

Now let's talk user-experience.

IMO it's not very useful to have a series of messages output to an
outlet. At the very least I'd like default behavior that sends
something like this to the console:

trace: tracecall float 42
trace: int bang
trace: messresponder bang
trace: list canvas mouse 112 33 1 0
trace: list guiconnect mouse 112 33 1 0

Where trace is a link that selects the relevant object when mousing over it.

Furthermore, the args should be links which, when clicked, send that
data to the relevant object.

I think that would be an extremely useful tool.

Additionally, I'm wondering if tracing backwards really fits the
dataflow paradigm. Wouldn't it be better like this?

trace:
guiconnect mouse 112 33 1 0
canvas mouse 112 33 1 0
messresponder bang
int bang
tracecall float 42

And again with links in the obvious places.

-Jonathan