Anomalous Script behavior

[Peter Bogdanoff]

Craig and Peter,

Thanks for your replies.

Yes, I’ve seen this happen other times, but then it does just go away.

Here I’m seeing it reoccur over and over...

I tried the same script in LC 6.1.3 and it seems better there, but will do more testing.

It could be that there is an unexpected value being passed, and maybe LC 7 is more susceptible to it.

Peter

On Jul 24, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> I've run into situations like this and it usually seems to be caused by an
> unexpected value in a variable passed to an lc function or command which
> causes it to silently quit and stop the rest of the calling script from
> executing.  Hard to define what "unexpected" means and I'm trying to think
> of an example but it's been a while since it happened to me.
> 
> I would add some code to your tracking mechanism to track the value of any
> critical variables, especially those that are passed as parameters to other
> handlers.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:16 PM Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> Using LC 7.1 dp1
>> 
>> Part of a script sometimes doesn’t function—sometimes it works just fine.
>> Sometimes it refuses to continue to execute the rest of a handler. This
>> refusal will happen over and over until some point in my testing it starts
>> working again beautifully.
>> 
>> It’s a group script with 35,655 characters. Is there a limit to the number
>> of characters?
>> 
>> I put in breakpoints that are sometimes reached, sometimes not.
>> 
>> It’s a handler that is being called by callbacks in a player as the media
>> plays, so it’s difficult to debug while the media is playing. So I put some
>> code in to put data into a field when those lines of the script are
>> reached. Then I can see the progression through the script in real time.
>> When it’s not working properly, while the handler IS receiving the callback
>> calls, that field stays empty.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Peter Bogdanoff
>> UCLA
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