Quality, reputation, and improving both (was Re: text copied form LC generated PDF, WTF?)

[Richard Gaskin]

Thank you, Mark.  Receiving the corrupted stack might be interesting, 
but what would certainly be most interesting would be to re-create that 
here.

Do you have a recipe I can follow for this?

Do you see the same behavior if plugins are disabled?

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems


Mark Wieder wrote:
> On 2/20/20 11:56 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
> 
>> On the forums we see a another, with surprising frequency:  when the 
>> behavior of a script is not understood, the poster will sometimes 
>> surmise that the cause is somehow file format corruption. Many cases 
>> turn out to be just syntax errors, and IIRC few or none of those have 
>> turned out to be file format corruption.
> 
> So here's one for you: As I've mentioned before, I don't use 9.6dpx for 
> anything serious. I've been working with LC9.6dp2 lately to see if my 
> stacks still work with the latest builds and I've been coming up with 
> interesting results.
> 
> At least twice now I've been editing scripts with two tabs open in the 
> script editor. After dutifully saving my changes I close the IDE and 
> relaunch to ensure a clean slate. I see that my stack crashes horribly 
> because the script I was editing has been saved into the wrong object 
> (the other script I was editing). Luckily backups saved me.
> 
> I have two different corrupted stacks after editing them (one of the 
> corrupted stacks is your 4wdevolution stack - happy to send it your way 
> if desired). Again backups saved the day. Made the same changes to the 
> stack and it works fine.
> 
> One of my stacks that behaved properly in LC9.5.1 consistently crashed 
> my distro's desktop manager in LC9.6dp2 (any edition), having to be 
> restarted. I just spent two days trying to figure out if I was doing 
> something wrong or something changed in LC itself, and it turns out to 
> be a combination. The cef browser code has changed enough that just 
> instantiating a browser widget is enough to cause havoc, so I now 
> sidestep some previously-working code and hope that still works when we 
> get dp3.
> 
> Yes, I realize that these are dp releases and shouldn't be considered 
> stable, but it's gotten to the point where I don't know whether problems 
> I come across are bugs in my code, bugs in the latest LC build, or 
> upcoming changes to The Way Things Work.