Catch and wrap game-loop errors and send them through the UI when available. much nicer than having to check the console

extra/game-loop/game-loop.factor

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-USING: accessors calendar destructors kernel math math.order namespaces
-system threads ;
+USING: accessors calendar continuations destructors kernel math
+math.order namespaces system threads ui ui.gadgets.worlds ;
 IN: game-loop
 
 TUPLE: game-loop
@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ SYMBOL: game-loop
 
 CONSTANT: MAX-FRAMES-TO-SKIP 5
 
+DEFER: stop-loop
+
+TUPLE: game-loop-error game-loop error ;
+
+: ?ui-error ( error -- )
+    ui-running? [ ui-error ] [ rethrow ] if ;
+
+: game-loop-error ( game-loop error -- )
+    [ drop stop-loop ] [ \ game-loop-error boa ?ui-error ] 2bi ;
+
 <PRIVATE
 
 : redraw ( loop -- )
@@ -54,7 +64,9 @@ CONSTANT: MAX-FRAMES-TO-SKIP 5
     [ drop ] if ;
 
 : run-loop ( loop -- )
-    dup game-loop [ (run-loop) ] with-variable ;
+    dup game-loop
+    [ [ (run-loop) ] [ game-loop-error ] recover ]
+    with-variable ;
 
 : benchmark-millis ( loop -- millis )
     millis swap benchmark-time>> - ;
@@ -91,3 +103,6 @@ PRIVATE>
 M: game-loop dispose
     stop-loop ;
 
+USING: vocabs vocabs.loader ;
+
+"prettyprint" vocab [ "game-loop.prettyprint" require ] when

extra/game-loop/prettyprint/prettyprint.factor

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+! (c)2009 Joe Groff bsd license
+USING: accessors debugger game-loop io ;
+IN: game-loop.prettyprint
+
+M: game-loop-error error.
+    "An error occurred inside a game loop." print
+    "The game loop has been stopped to prevent runaway errors." print
+    "The error was:" print nl
+    error>> error. ;