Possible bug in LC6.7 - maybe one for Mark Schonewille?

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Sat Oct 25 12:48:50 EDT 2014


Hi Graham,

Please, send an e-mail to support at economy-x-talk.com. That will put the 
issue into our system and probably I'll get to have a look a at it next 
week.

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On 10/25/2014 15:26, Graham Samuel wrote:
> In a desktop app (Mac and Windows - currently testing the Mac version) I’m using a button (actually a group acting as a button) designed by Mark Schonewille which does nice things with shading. This has been working for a long time, ever since it was announced by Mark. Now in LC 6.7, I get a compile error in a setProp handler in the group (in fact in several groups with the same script). Part of a case statement looks like this
>
>> 	lock messages
>           set the status["disabled"] of me to not theBool
>           set the status["hilite"] of me to false
>           unlock messages
>>
> The IDE reports
>
>>   compiling at 2:58:22 PM
>> Type	Expression: bad factor
>> Object	ClearAllGroup
>> Line	set the status["disabled"] of me to not theBool
>> Hint	[
>
> There is no hint. As it would seem to be a syntax failure, maybe some new reserved word is getting in the way - but this is just a guess.
>
> I have not yet been able to isolate this to confirm and then report it as a bug. Mark, if you're around, do you understand what's happening? I quite understand if you haven't got time to look at it, but I thought I'd ask before trying to go deeper into the issue.
>
> TIA
>




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