No, you can''t. It doesn''t work so.
I think you should implement some sort of logging in your programming. It''s all worth it, I promise ;-)
Every time your program want to alert the user about something, just write it down to a file. It will make your debugging much easier.

When it comes to logging files I use a couple of methods
For a quick look at variables I use file output all on one line
FILE *fp = fopen("returnstr.txt", "wt"); fputs(pReturnString,fp); fclose(fp); // debug string



As well I have dozens of player action functions that sometimes need debugging. To occassionally track them when there''s a crash, I use a #define to able/disable the file logging. As well I have a variable that that I use to keep the files sorted in order when I take a look at my run-time directory
1001LoadPlayer.txt
1002LoadPlayer.txt
1003LoadPlayer.txt
1004LoadPlayer.txt
1005AnalyzeBalance.txt
1006LaunchAttack.text
1007LaunchAttack.text
1008LaunchAttack.text
1009LaunchAttack.text
1010PlayerUnconscious.txt
...

// #define JTDEBUG 1

int Actor:layerUnconscious()
{
#ifdef JTDEBUG
char show[80];
sprintf(show, "%d%s", numDebug++, "PlayerUnconscious.txt");
FILE *fp = fopen(show, "wt"); fprintf(fp,"Yside\n" ); fclose(fp); // debug string
#endif
status = UNCONSCIOUS;
SpriteNum = PLAYERDOWN;
pAction = Waiting;
}

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Much of Unreal (and therefore Unreal Tournament too, I''m guessing) is coded in their proprietary language UnrealScript, which is very similar to Java, compiled into bytecode and then executed by the virtual machine. I expect the variable names and function names are left in the bytecode for such debugging purposes. I know that the class definitions are themselves objects, so you can look at a class from within the program

noxa: that sounds interesting. you are tracing calls when an error occurs, (at least so do i understand that). how do you do that? do you print all function calls in a file, or only when an error occured?
i think i will implement something like that

quote:Original post by Gromit

Unrealscript is used for ai and other in game actions and responses. Not to code the actual game.

Firstly, I think a lot of the skilled AI guys may take issue at you not considering the AI to be the ''actual game''. Personally I think it is more important than how many polygons you can push around onscreen, but there you go.

However, you are wrong anyway. Here''s an except from their code:

// Texture: An Unreal texture map.
// This is a built-in Unreal class and it shouldn''t be modified.
//=============================================================================
class Texture expands Bitmap
safereplace
intrinsic;

// Subtextures.
var(Texture) texture BumpMap; // Bump map to illuminate this texture with.
var(Texture) texture DetailTexture; // Detail texture to apply.
var(Texture) texture MacroTexture; // Macrotexture to apply, not currently used.

// Surface properties.
var(Texture) float Diffuse; // Diffuse lighting coefficient.
var(Texture) float Specular; // Specular lighting coefficient.
var(Texture) float Alpha; // Alpha.
var(Texture) float DrawScale; // Scaling relative to parent.
var(Texture) float Friction; // Surface friction coefficient, 1.0=none, 0.95=some.
var(Texture) float MipMult; // Mipmap multiplier.

// Sounds.
var() sound FootstepSound; // Footstep sound.
var() sound HitSound; // Sound when the texture is hit with a projectile.

// Surface flags. !!out of date
var bool bInvisible;
var bool bMasked;
var(Surface) bool bTransparent;
var bool bNotSolid;
...etc...

It''s not designed for the end user to modify, but it -is- coded in UnrealScript. And I don''t consider texture maps to be AI. By the look of it, almost all the game is in UnrealScript.