Status & Switchbar problem

[w0rd]

Right, I used Reshack and a couple of dll's (mainly ktools) to alter the icons on the switchbar and create a statusbar (both at the bottom of my screen). Being new to dll's and stuff I wasnt quite sure what to do when after a while running mIRC the status and switchbar start to mess up (ie. icons disappear, then the text, then if I have a window over it and close that I get a ghost image of that window where the 2 'bars should be) I thought it was because of some of my remotes so I unloaded everything but my connection, theme and statusbar.mrc, but I'm still havin the same problem. I had an idea from somewhere to debug my script but I'm not sure whether that would sort it or how I would go about doing that. Any ideas?

[Trad]

Yes always debug. that tells you where the problem is coming from and what the problem is. But its hard to debug with dll's, im not sure if you can.

[w0rd]

How would I go about doing it just for my script in general? Is there a tutorial / help file anywhere?

Thanx..

[Trad]

When i write code, and it doesnt work. like that profile reader i made (that slick re-released), it didnt work first time.

What i did, was. at every stage like when it recognized the PUID, and after it wrote to the file and when every socket event happerned i added an echo.

Then i would wait for it to happen. See how far it got up to.. like

** Getting PUID for w0rd
** Socket Opened (profilescan.w0rd)
** Got PUID
** Written PUID To File
** Socket 2 Opened (profilescan2.w0rd)
** Found Re-Direct Link
** Opened Socket 3

and it would stop, so i knew my error was in socket 3 opening, and i could fix it then.

Just echo stuff and you can see where your script is halting and therefore the error is there.

[w0rd]

Okies, ty ;D