a quarter of a datapoint on those #()&%)(8 wandering red dots

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Soft breakpoints both wander and become sterile. Edits in a handler, even if the line order does not change, nor the total number of lines, can render a softie useless.


It is both the most important and least important change I wish the team would address (pun intended).


Craig Newman



-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Mon, Oct 17, 2016 3:58 pm
Subject: Re: a quarter of a datapoint on those #()&%)(8 wandering red dots

The fact that they are red should have tipped you off. The only way I use the red dots is as a quick breakpoint while a script is already running, where I cannot type the breakpoint command. Once I edit the script, I clear whatever dots I set and if necessary set them again. They survive between compiles, but once you compile a script they will wander, or be ignored altogether if they fall on a comment or blank line. And it doesn't matter if you make the edits before or after the soft breakpoint either.

Bob S


On Oct 17, 2016, at 12:53 , Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com<mailto:dochawk at gmail.com>> wrote:

I may have, by chance, stumbled upon something.

The evil red dots have a tendency to wander, sometimes a line or two, and
sometimes wildly.

I just discovered that I had two versions of the same button, in two copies
of a group.

I *think* that after deleting the extraneous group, it's buttons may have
migrated to the "canonical " button of the same name.

I had just cleared them entirely in the canonical group, added two, and a
few minutes later, had many (naturally, in places that stopped while in a
modal dialog . . .)



--
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.

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