no such object in step by step debugger

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Jacques,

This has nothing to do with the debugger. The syntax

   put field theField into thevar

is incorrect and should be

   put the text of theField into thevar

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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On 7 nov 2008, at 20:04, Jacques Hausser wrote:

> Hello,
> I was away from Revolution for a while (to many other things to do)  
> but now I'm just retired (yes!!!) and at least I have time to work a  
> bit more on some applications I planned to do... and I discovered a  
> strange thing with the new debugger.
> Forgive me if it is known already (but in this case answer  
> nevertheless directly, many thank, I was unable to find something  
> about this problem on the list).
> I have a stack's custom property called CurrentField, containing the  
> short name of a field. In the stack script I have something like:
>
> put the currentField of me into theField
> put word 2 of theField into numvar
> -- here some stuff with numvar
> put field theField into thevar
> -- here some stuff with the content of the field (thevar)
>
> Well. If I put a breakpoint on the last line of this script,  
> everything is OK, numvar and thevar both contain what I want. BUT if  
> I put my breakpoint on the first line, and progress step by step, I  
> get an error "chunk: no such object" at the "put field theField" line.
> If I change my mind and put the long name of the field in the  
> currentfield, everything is OK, but it is just boring and more heavy  
> to parse to get my information back.
> The same problem seems to occur with any objects designed by their  
> short name. The defaultStack is the good one (mine). I got this  
> problem with Revolution 3 on a Mac Intel with OS X 10.5.5
> I think it's not a fair behaviour for a debugger, but perhaps it is  
> not orthodoxal to invoke objects by their short name...
>
> Thank you for advice
>
> Jacques