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Status Future consideration
Categories DXL
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 11, 2023

Add try/catch perms to DXL to aid in testing for and catching disruptive layout DXL error messages

In some places, DXL can run and throw errors that disrupt a workflow, block the UI or worse. A try/catch mechanism in DXL could allow DXL authors to test for and catch such situations better.

Idea priority High
Needed By Quarter
  • Guest
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    Oct 16, 2023

    A try/catch/finally statement is highly important for developing safe DXL-scripts, including the usage of Triggers and/in Layout- and Attribute-DXL.

    Using catch/finally statement makes a script much more safe and also using this in ADXL/LDXL avoid a lot of trouble debugging this scripts and avoid the case that sometimes a module can not be opened due to failed A/LDXL scripts.