Does Clarion 8 offer anything for exception handling? I know as of Clarion 5 there was no support for things like try / catch
but that was released almost 10 years ago. I can't seem to find any info on how to recover from exceptions in C6 to C8 unless I was using Clarion# (aka Clarion.NET) which I'm not. If there's definitely nothing like try / catch
, are there any tricks or hacks that can be used to not have a program crash when an exception is thrown even if it goes unhandled?
If it helps, I'm using version 8.0.0.8778.
EDIT 1:
Here is some sample code for a basic program that should supposedly illustrate the feature PROP:LastChanceHook
, however, I can't get it to work. When I run this program, I see the first message "Start", but then nothing happens. I've tried returning 0 or 1 from Hook
but that hasn't made a difference either. Every time I run this, I have to go onto the Task Manager and end the process for the program because it's not being killed.
PROGRAM
INCLUDE('CWEXCPT.INT'), ONCE
MAP
Hook(*ICWExceptionInfo), LONG
Test(LONG,LONG)
END
CODE
MESSAGE('[Sample] Start')
SYSTEM{PROP:LastChanceHook} = ADDRESS(Hook)
Test(10, 0) ! Intentionally causes an exception
MESSAGE('[Sample] After Test')
RETURN ! Tried removing this, no difference
Hook PROCEDURE(*ICWExceptionInfo info)
CODE
MESSAGE('[Sample] Start Hook')
IF info &= NULL THEN RETURN 0 END
Message('An exception!')
RETURN 1 ! 0 = don't kill, anything > 0 = tell RTL to kill the thread
Test PROCEDURE (LONG a, LONG b)
CODE
a %= b
Yes, take a look at prop:LastChanceHook in the help. It may provide enough function for your needs.
In other cases, the info at this link might also be useful: http://clarionsharp.com/blog/tracking-down-those-pesky-gpfs/
In the next public build of C8 (it's presently Sept 27, 2012), the buttons on that exception display (shown at the link above) can be customized a bit.