Cannot use Message Box

[Pete]

I didn't get the error message but  I'm sure the cause was the same.

I'm thinking maybe this should be reported as a bug.  It's puzzling why LC
should be chasing down global variables it doesn't care about and not being
prepared to deal with slashes I guess is a side effect of that.  Plus
there's lots of variables that have slashes in them.

I don;t see that variable on my computer right now so I guess Chrome only
creates it under certain circumstances.

Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:

> Hi Pete,
>
> Chrome is my default browser too. Here is what I posted when it happened:
>
>> Apparently Google Chrome defined a global on my Mac that is crippling all
>> my versions of LiveCode. LC can't do ANYTHING that requires dealing with
>> globals - like opening the script editor - because it runs into this global
>> var name and doesn't know what to do with it (I assume because of the
>> slashes in the var name).
>>
>> I went back to Rev 4.0 and tried to edit a script; I get this error
>> message:
>>
>> |        executing at 9:09:00 PM
>> Type    do: error in source expression
>> Object  Variables
>> Line    do tStatement
>> Hint    global
>> $COM_GOOGLE_CHROME_FRAMEWORK_SERVICE_PROCESS/USERS/PHIL/LIBRARY/APPLICATION_SUPPORT/GOOGLE/CHROME_SOCKET
>> |
>> Note the global name in the "Hint" line above:
>> COM_GOOGLE_CHROME_FRAMEWORK_SERVICE_PROCESS/USERS/PHIL/LIBRARY/APPLICATION_SUPPORT/GOOGLE/CHROME_SOCKET
>>
>>
>> I opened Terminal and typed "set" to see the vars defined, and there it
>> was with a value of "/tmp/launch-FbX6le/ServiceProcessSocket".
>>
>> Now my question... How do I delete it from the Terminal command line? I
>> don't remember! Hellllpppp!
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>>
> Thankfully a computer restart took care of it.
>
> On 5/7/11 4:45 PM, Pete wrote:
>
>> Hi Phil,
>> I'm thinking my problem was the same as yours.  If I right-clicked a
>> control
>> then selected the Edit Script option, the cursor changed to a watch and no
>> script editor window was displayed.  Repeated the same thing and I got a
>> script editor window.  I could edit scripts OK but if I clicked the
>> Variables tab, the variables displayed briefly then disappeared again.
>>
>> I use Google Chrome as my main browser so I'll bet it was the same
>> problem.
>>  Out of interest, do you know what the variable name was?
>>
>> Pete
>> Molly's Revenge<http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Phil Davis<revdev at pdslabs.net>  wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> Can you edit scripts OK? This reminds me of a weird LC problem I had a
>>> few
>>> days ago that was caused by the existence of a global (an environment
>>> variable created by Google Chrome apparently) that had slashes in the
>>> name.
>>> It went away when I restarted my machine.
>>>
>>> On 5/7/11 3:54 PM, paul foraker wrote:
>>>
>>>  This problem is happening on my iMac, 10.6.7, with all versions of Rev
>>>> and
>>>> LiveCode on my drive. None of them has a functioning Message Box. I can
>>>> type
>>>> in it, but cannot execute. I have no stacks in use, and no plugins
>>>> loaded.
>>>>
>>>>  --
>>> Phil Davis
>>>
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>>>
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