bug check

[J. Landman Gay]

On 2/14/13 3:18 PM, Mike Kerner wrote:
> Could someone else please confirm these for me?
>
> I'm building an ios app
> 1) Edit a script of an object
> 2) Hit the "Test" button.without first hitting "enter" or saving the change
> to the script.  The indicator for the script status should be yellow
>
> LC doesn't ask to save the stack, it seems, and runs the stack in the
> simulator without the changes.  That seems like a bug.

It's the same behavior the script editor always has. If you don't 
compile, LiveCode is happy to run the old version. Whether that's a bug 
or not, I don't know, but it's consistent.

>
> Here's another:
> 1) create a button
> 2) create a field
> 3) change the script of the button to
> answer the bogusproperty of field 1
> answer "this is an answer dialog"
>
> When testing, no dialog appears for me, even though at least the second one
> should, even though the property name is bogus in the first case.
>

It's acting as though the script has thrown an error and aborted. But if 
the property doesn't exist, it should be answering empty. Maybe wrapping 
it in a try structure would give a clue in the catch statement.

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