Rev IDE crashing

[Ken Ray]

Chris,

Can you open the stack "RNStories" manually in the Rev IDE without a
crash?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Chris Sheffield
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:50 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: RE: Rev IDE crashing
> 
> 
> I'm not even specifying modes.  It simply reads 'go stack 
> "RNStories"'.
> 
> What I've got is a custom handler 'GoStories' that is called 
> from a mouseUp handler of a button.  It looks like this:
> 
>    on GoStories
>       lock screen
>       go stack "RNStories"
>       set the visible of stack "RNLogin" to false
>       unlock screen
>    end GoStories
> 
> Is there anything unusual there?  The thing that's really 
> strange is that this same code has been working for months 
> now with different versions of Rev on OS X, and it still 
> works fine under Windows with Rev 2.1.  It wasn't until I 
> moved the stack to OS X and Rev 2.1 that I've had this problem.
> 
> I'm going to keep playing with it a bit.  I logged the crash 
> like Alex said, and it appears that my code is trying to 
> access some area of memory that it shouldn't.  I could be 
> wrong about that, though.  I'm not familiar with Mac 
> programming other than in Rev, but I've seen similar messages 
> in a C debugger on Windows.  If I can't figure anything out 
> I'll go ahead and bug report it.  Thanks to you and Alex.
> 
> Chris Sheffield
> Software Development
> Read Naturally
> csheffield at readnaturally.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Jan Schenkel
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 11:31 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Rev IDE crashing
> 
> --- Chris Sheffield <revlist at cableone.net> wrote:
> > If the Rev IDE crashes, is there any way to find out
> > why?  Like a log file
> > or something that is written to?
> > 
> > I'm working on OS X 10.2.6.  I've got a main stack
> > that opens another stack
> > via the go command.  I've debugged it and Rev
> > crashes every time on the line
> > with the go command.  I cannot figure out what's
> > going on, and I can't debug
> > any further because it crashes.  I'm not sure if
> > I've got bad code in the
> > handlers of the new stack or not.  But the exact
> > same thing runs fine under
> > Windows.  I've tried placing breakpoints in my
> > preOpenStack and preOpenCard
> > handlers to no avail.  It seems like the go command
> > is actually what's
> > failing.
> > 
> > Can anyone think of anything else I could check for
> > or do?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Chris Sheffield
> > 
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Alex gave you instructions on how to log the crash.
> In the meantime, what is the exact 'go' statement ?
> 
> There is/was a bug that could cause a crash with :
>   go stack "Foobar" in window of this stack
> if the stacks have different stack modes (topLevel,
> modal,...)
> 
> If that's the case, then try changing the modes to
> match first.
> 
> Hope this helped,
> 
> Jan Schenkel.
> 
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> same time." (La Rochefoucauld)
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