Bug or new feature? - It's A Big Bug!

[Dennis Brown]

Is there a different, parallel path to notify RunRev of something a  
serious as this so they can get started on it right away?

Dennis

On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Dennis Brown wrote:

> Of course my scripts are failing also.  I write a lot of "if it is  
> empty then exit mouseUp"
>
> I traced through this and found that the it variable appeared to be  
> empty after I hit Cancel.  However, the if empty would fail.  When  
> I manually select the contents of the it variable in the variable  
> watcher and delete, the test succeeds.  So the it variable is being  
> set to something that looks empty, but isn't.
>
> This is critical! I would expect RunRev to have a fix for this in  
> the next 24 hours!  This might point to why I have been  
> experiencing not so nice behavior in the IDE.  Back to 2.5 untill  
> the 2.6.1 version.
>
> Dennis
>
> On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
>
>
>> On 6/7/05 1:23 PM, "Éric Miclo" <eric.miclo at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> on myCommand
>>>    ask question "What do you look for?" as sheet
>>>    if it is empty or the result is "Cancel" or the result is  
>>> empty then
>>>      do nothing
>>>    else
>>>      do something
>>>    end if
>>> end myCommand
>>>
>>> In my opinion, after having a sight at the documentation, it is a
>>> bug. Am I wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> No, Eric, you're right! And this is a bug that will probably bite  
>> a lot of
>> people (including me)...
>>
>> I can't tell you how many places I've said stuff like:
>>
>>   ask <string>
>>   if the result is not "Cancel" then
>>     put it into tString
>>     <do something with tString>
>>   end if
>>
>> NOW, this will totally fail. It of course works properly in 2.5.1,  
>> so it's
>> definitely a 2.6 bug. Eric, if you don't log it in Bugzilla let me  
>> know and
>> I'll log it. Please mark it as "severe".
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ken Ray
>> Sons of Thunder Software
>> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>>
>>
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