Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Novice Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui Subject: Re: Where to put an SSCCE? Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Your Company Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <0er9g756t5c7dep5kglgpttunkeqbm7015@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 5PPmjkvSSHvzZTySRz75XA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120105-1, 2012-01-05), Outbound message Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.gui:4902 Roedy Green wrote in news:0er9g756t5c7dep5kglgpttunkeqbm7015@4ax.com: > On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:29:18 -0800, Daniel Pitts > wrote, quoted or indirectly > quoted someone who said : > >> If you >>make it simple enough that we can help you, often you help yourself. > > In the process of creating the SSCCE you often strip out the thing > that is causing the trouble. 90% of solving a problem is knowing > precisely what is broken. True enough. In my case, debugging the simplified code finally helped me see how I was causing my problem by inadvertently erasing the error message that I had created and set up to display before it was actually visible. -- Novice