TALK_TO module

The ERROR Talk_To module lets you set the number and type of error messages to be printed, and lets you set abort conditions. This module was designed to be a convenient alternative to calling error logger subroutines from inside CDF code.

This module is now included in all Analysis_Control links.

• SHOW LEVELS displays the minimum error severities for reporting the error or causing the program to abort.

• SHOW THRESHOLDS displays the report and abort thresholds for the various error levels. The report threshold is the number of errors of a given level after which no more reports are to be provided. The abort threshold is the number of errors of a given level after which an abort is requested.

• SHOW SUBROUTINE displays all report and abort thresholds based on subroutine names or specific error messages.

• SHOW SUMMARY prints the summary of logged errors.

• REPORT lets you set the minimum error severity for printing an error message. Default is INFO.

• ABORT lets you set the minimum error severity that will cause the program to abort. Default is SEVERE.

• THRESHOLDS lets you change the report and abort thresholds for each of the error levels. The report limit is the number of errors of a given level after which no more reports are provided. The abort threshold is the number of errors of a given level after which an abort is requested. A response of "-1" means infinity.

• SUBROUTINE lets you set report thresholds based on the subroutine name or the specific message. In both cases, the wildcard character '*' can be used to represent any number characters. For example, these responses:
  Subroutine (* is wildcard) []: TRK*
  Error message (* is wildcard) [... *
  Maximum # of these messages reported [0]: 10
  would cause the error logger to only print the first ten error messages it receives from subroutines whose names start with the letters "TRK". A report threshold of "-1" means that all of these messages will be reported.

• DEFAULT prompts the user to set the default number of times any single message can be reported. This number is overridden by all subroutines and TALK_TO functions which change

• SUMMARY toggles On/Off the printing of the error logger summary when exiting from Analysis_Control. Default is On.

• RUN_SUMMARY toggles On/Off the printing of the error logger summary when an end-of-run is detected. Default is On.