Strange behavior of the IDE?

[Peter Haworth]

I've experienced this from time to time and it's very frustrating.

Have you tried inserting a "breakpoint" command at the start of your
function rather than a "red dot" breakpoint?

I've sometimes found that the statement following the breakpoint is somehow
syntactically incorrect in a way that isn't caught during compile, which
seems to cause LC to just give up.  Sorry to be so vague but I can't
remember the exact details.

On another occasion, I ended up putting a lock messages command in my code
(when I was in "try anything" mode) which fixed the problem, but I have no
idea why.


Pete
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to debug a sequence of code with some repeat loops and stuff in
> it. I'm using LC 6.5.2 on Apple Mavericks 10.9.1 - but I've just tested
> this on a far older version of LC (5.5.4) and I get the same problem:
>
> I have put a number of breakpoints in the code, and when I start executing
> it, the breakpoints do indeed stop the code running as expected. But then I
> come to a point where the code seems to rush ahead, taking no notice of the
> breakpoints. Specifically, I start tracing before calling a certain
> function with this statement
>
> put myFunction(myParameter) into field "myField"
>
> The first line of the function has a breakpoint in it, but as soon as
> execution moves to the function, none of the breakpoints within it apply.
> It's as if I'd clicked on the 'step over' button in the IDE instead of the
> 'step into', but I haven't. This is entirely repeatable. What did I do
> wrong? I suppose it may be a bug, but I rather dread cutting it down to a
> simple example. Has anyone any idea what is causing this?
>
> TIA
>
> Graham
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