mystery exception

[Ben Rubinstein]

on 7/3/03 8:51 pm, Dar Scott wrote

> On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 01:15 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
> 
>> The "Error Reporting" checkbox on the resources tab of the Distro
>> builder? Yes, I included it. And this handler was failing silently
>> until I wrapped it in a try/catch statement. How can I tell what other
>> handlers area failing silently? I'm a unclear on the concept of how
>> the Error Reporting dialogs are supposed to work (or why they wouldn't
>> work)
> 
> I have had the same problem.  And I suspect the same reason--I don't
> know how to use the error reporting dialogs.
> 
> The error string that a catch gets is not very helpful.

I asked some detailed questions on this list six months ago, about apparent
errors in the error string that catch gets, and inconsistencies between the
documentation and the reality:

http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2002-September/007691.html

Unfortunately I never had any response.  But my message did report some
experimental findings, which anyone struggling in this area might find it
useful to read.

FWIW, although there are a lot of problems with this, it is possible with to
use the data to get some clues about where the problem is.  And in so far as
Alex's problem was happening in the standalone, not the IDE, it's most
likely to be one of two things:
    - a "do" statement exceeding the 'starter kit' limitation
    - a library or DLL which is not included in the standalone

Hope this helps,
 
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