deleting line of a field causes crashes

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Oct 5 18:43:10 EDT 2013


On 10/5/13 5:16 PM, tbodine wrote:
> Hi LiveCoders.
>
> I'm writing an "Open Recent Files" feature that stores paths to the last 10
> files opened in a field in a separate stack ("AppPrefs"). I consistently get
> crashes (LC 6.1.1 commercial) when I attempt to delete certain lines of that
> field, which is stored in a stack in the user's AppData area.
>
> -- delete the last line after adding new one to top
> if the number of lines in field "Recent" of stack "AppPrefs" > 10 then
>    delete the last line of field "Recent" of stack "AppPrefs" -- CRASHES!
> end if
>
> --similarly, this crashes when I loop through the same field's lines and try
> to delete prior listings of the same filepath:
>
> delete line n of field "Recent" of stack "AppPrefs" -- CRASHES
>
> Am I missing s/g obvious or is there a bug at work?

Sounds like a bug to me. But at any rate, the engine should never crash 
even if you really are doing something wrong. I'd say send a report.

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