Array glitch

[Dar Scott]

Does this occur if you dump the array (using your favorite method)?

Does this occur with just the breakpoint?

Does this occur with typing in a whole new script with no cut and paste?

Does this occur with other number keys or other values or simply by setting the variable?

Does this occur with some other variable name?

Does this occur with no preferences file?

I hope others have better questions, but if not...

Dar


On Jul 11, 2013, at 5:38 PM, Terry Dennis wrote:

> Well, back to my original question ... how do I determine what caused this?
> 
> If the debugger chokes on it, there's a good chance there's some other insidious related glitch in the guts of LC that will cause other strange happenings.  I'm allergic to strange happenings.
> 
> I don't want to use a value for my array keys that will cause nightmarish problems in the future.
> 
> I built that test script to isolate a problem that had already cost me a bunch of time and caused a loss of data.  Then, isolating the problem took a while, because I didn't think something as simplistic as that would be a problem.
> 
> Now, does anybody have any idea what the problem is, so I can redesign my array to avoid the problem?  Or, better yet, have somebody at RunRev fix the problem so some other poor schmuck doesn't experience the same surprise.
> 
> That glitch exists in:
> 
> 1) an existing stack (which is how I first encountered it),
> 2) in the same stack with a new button and new script,
> 3) in an entirely new stack after exiting and re-entering LC.
> 
> I don't think it's environmental, but I suppose it could be ... which brings me back to my original question ... how do I determine what caused this?
> 
> Terry
> 
> From: Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Array glitch
> Message-ID: <16481125456.20130711150311 at ahsoftware.net>
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> 
> Jacque-
> 
> Thursday, July 11, 2013, 2:07:04 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> What's the bug exactly? Big numbers as keys?
> 
> Oops. I can't find the bug I was thinking about at the moment, but it
> turns out I was thinking of another reported bug.
> 
> I tried the test script here and it worked fine.
> 
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> 
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