script editor error that drives me insane

Alex Rice alex at mindlube.com
Wed Sep 24 14:47:00 EDT 2003


On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 01:07  PM, Dar Scott wrote:
>
> I get strange compiler errors at times.  Sometimes they go away after 
> a few applies.  If not, I get rid of all the trailing "blank" lines.  
> If that doesn't do it, I retype the offending line.  Sometimes this 
> occurs after an execution error.

Thanks Dar, unfortunately this problem the compiler complains the 
offending line is the 1st line in the script- which has no parenthesis 
and doesn't help if I retype it.

> I think this shows up in two or three of reported bugs.
>
> I'm on OS X and I'm using 2.1.  I think Revolution 2.1 for OS X is a 
> debug build; maybe that affects error handling.  Or maybe it is just 
> the IDE error handling.

I don't know- the stack traces I've been getting in Rev 2.1 when Rev 
crashes don't have debug symbols in them. But that's probably another 
issue.


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