18/05/2007 - Friday

Haven't really done anything majorly new recently. I started on something new but it has bugs in it already (something that I've used before in the past and worked fine then but doesn't want to work properly now for some reason) and I've spent the last couple of days trying to work out exactly what is going wrong. I managed to fix one bug only for another bug to appear in a different area. I'm finding it hard to debug properly as the debugging causes the problem code to be run more times than usual, as the code is to do with drawing text and the debugging interrupts this drawing and when I resume running it causes the text to be redrawn again and the loop continues. This resulted in lots of rubbish data as the bug wasn't happening at the beginning of something, it happened after more text was drawn, but the debugging didn't let it get past the first bit of text.

I think I know what has to be changed now though. I got annoyed with it late last night so I gave up until today. Hopefully I will be able to fix the bug and get on with the rest of it as I'm doing this program to allow me to do my website work more easily (it's a very basic code editor as all the others I've tried are just too bulky for me).