Code wish

[toms]

I´ve seen the macro DEBUG_MSG MSG. But it is no real debug message. All you can do with it is to comment it out.
I would rather like to see something like:

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#ifdef DEBUG
 (stuff)
#endif

(DEBUG:debug mode)
Is this any possible?

[Sapient]

You mean you want to check if the user has entered debug mode? If so, that should not be done with preprocessor commands.

The preprocessor only evaluates once, at load time.[/code]

[toms]

I meaned an if definition for things wich should only happen if the user is in the debug mode. Example:

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(complicated variable stuff)
#ifdef DEBUG
[message]
speaker=narrator
message=_"variableone has the value |$variableone|. Do you want to change it?"
 [option]
 message=_"yes"
  [command]
   [message]
   speaker=narrator
   message=_"What operation?
    [option]
    message=_"Addition"
     [command]
      {VARIABLE op add}
     [/command]
    [/option]
    [option]
    message=_"Multiply"
     [command]
      {VARIABLE op multiply}
     [/command]
    [/option]  #only 2 options to show what i mean
   [/message]
   {VARIABLE arg 0}
   [while]
   [variable]
   name=exitloop
   equals=0
   [/variable]
    [do]
     [message]
     speaker=narrator
     message=_"Do you want to do |$operation|=|$arg|  with the variable or increase the argument?"
      [option]
      message=_"Yes"
       [command]
        {VARIABLE exitloop 1}
        {VARIABLE_OP variableone ($operation) ($arg)}
       [/command]
      [/option]
      [option]
      message=_"No, I wanna add 1 to the argument number."
       [command]
        {VARIABLE_OP arg add 1}
       [/command]
      [/option]
     [/message]
    [/do]
   [/while]
   {CLEAR_VARIABLE exitloop}
   {CLEAR_VARIABLE operation}
   {CLEAR_VARIABLE arg}
  [/option]
  [option]
  message=_"No."
  [command] [/command]
 [/option]
[/message]
#endif

Other ideas I have to solve it are
To write a macro for such stuff, put it in, and comment it out.
To make an own "difficulty" for debugging. The problem is that probably all users would play the debug mode of the campaign then.

And what would you suggest instead of an if definition?

[Darth Fool]

It seems the easiest thing to do would be to make the debug variable available to WML then you could use it in an [if] tag something like:

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[if]
  [variable]
    name=DEBUG
    equals=true
  [/variable]
[/if]

That would probably not be too difficult a change to make to the C++ code. Anyone want to write a patch?

[Sapient]

To be consistent with other WML booleans, it should be yes/no instead of true/false. I'll take a look into the code. I'm still learning my way around it, though.

[zookeeper]

It seems the easiest thing to do would be to make the debug variable available to WML then you could use it in an [if] tag something like:

[if]'s can only be used in events, so that kind of solution would enable "debugging" of only some things, not all.