Remote Debugger Anomalies

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami brahma at hindu.org
Wed Sep 12 14:44:50 EDT 2018


Hmm I just go a test stack from Elanor... never open before

It has the debug script when she ran it on android saved into SA builder!

I went to edit it and get unusual ID

536434756567-36465 (etc.)

?




On 9/12/18 3:40 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote:
> -- Shut down LC
> -- Android phone is connected  by USB
> -- install in app on Android
> -- fix a script (change a typo)
> -- save the script; save the stack
> -- From the test menu, choose Android
> -- build the app; install on device
> -- the debugged breaks on the script that I just saved, and it shows the
> script at it was *before* change the typo!
> -- Leave debug mode, try to change the script again,
> -- try to save LC give an error message so on cannot file the path to
> save the script
>
> The above is just one scenario: after running debug on Android, you have
> no clue whether you are editing a "phantom script" or the "real library"
> on in your hard drive. Or you are ending a script the  lies in "depths
> of the standalone maker" even though the app is installed on the phone.
>
> In some scenarios, like the above, you feel *certain* you are editing
> the "real" script. (you can tell by opening BBEdit) You delete the app
> from the device, run the test again: the debugger shows that error that
> you just fixed!
>
> It is getting tiring to have to shut down LC and reboot everytime you
> test. But that seem to be only way that there is not "latent" memory of
> the script, as it was, broken, in the bowels of LC, even you have fixed
> in it disk.
>
> Can any provide a rock solid procedure to be *sure* that  SA *always*
> get a corrected version of any script?
>
> BR
>




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