Functions running in IDE, but not running in standalone

[Bruce Pokras]

Matthias and Curry,

Thanks for your responses. I am using Indy for which I apparently do not have access to RemoteDebugger.

I did activate the “Bug Reports” feature and added “tsNet” to the included stuff for the standalone. 

From the bug reporter feature, it seems that “libURL" commands/functions are somehow creating a problem. (And, yes, I am including the Internet library in my standalone!).

Here are a couple of examples of the bug reports that were generated:
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Error from running Patent Grabber’s “Abstract Report":

Executing at 3:45:49 PM on Monday, July 20, 2020
Type: Handler: can't find handler
Object: stack "/Users/BruceiMac/Documents/Revolution/Projects 461/Patent Grabber 6.4.4-0310/MacOSX/Patent Grabber 6.4.4-03.app/Contents/MacOS/Patent Grabber 6.4.4-03"
Line Num: 81
Hint: libURLSetSSLVerification

My comments: Line 81 is where I set libURLSetSSLVerification to false. What does it mean “can’t find handler"???? Why not? It’s part of the included Internet library!

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Error from running Patent Grabber’s "Get Biblio +" report:

Executing at 12:56:56 PM on Monday, July 20, 2020
Type: Function: error in function handler
Object: card id 3946 of stack "/Users/BruceiMac/Documents/Revolution/Projects 461/Patent Grabber 6.4.4-035/MacOSX/Patent Grabber 6.4.4-03.app/Contents/MacOS/Patent Grabber 6.4.4-03"
Line Num: 2840
Hint: libURLLastRHHeaders

My comments: The libURLLastRHHeaders is used by Patent Grabber to determine whether a server at the European Patent Office is restricting bandwidth. In such cases, Patent Grabber waits longer between queries. Works fine in the IDE, of course.

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Here is a real frustrating thing. The first execution error that the Bug Reports generates is one that is like the two above.That’s fine. But after that it produces what might be an infinite number of execution errors like the following:

Executing at 3:46:29 PM on Monday, July 20, 2020
Type: Handler: error in statement
Object: stack "/Users/BruceiMac/Documents/Revolution/Projects 461/Patent Grabber 6.4.4-0310/MacOSX/Patent Grabber 6.4.4-03.app/Contents/MacOS/Patent Grabber 6.4.4-03"
Line Num: 12
Hint: errorDialog

My comments: There is no errorDialog command in the stack script. In fact, line 12 of the stack script is an "end if" which is part of a preOpenStack handler to center the stack on the screen.
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I have to force-quit the standalone to get out of this infinite loop! This whole thing is very weird and very frustrating!

Regards,

Bruce

> On Jul 19, 2020, at 3:16 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> did you already try the RemoteDebugger to debug your standalone?
> 
> http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/698439-using-the-remote-debugger <http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/698439-using-the-remote-debugger>
> 
> 
> 
> -
> Matthias Rebbe
> Life Is Too Short For Boring Code
> 
>> Am 19.07.2020 um 20:17 schrieb Bruce Pokras via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> I am having a very frustrating experience. I have an app called Patent Grabber that is for downloading and searching for patents and published patent applications. A user reported that one feature of Patent Grabber was not working. That was the Abstract Report which takes a list of US patent numbers and downloads basic information about each, and combines all of this information into a single HTML file.
>> 
>> When I tried the Abstract Report in the stack from which Patent Grabber was compiled, the Abstract Report ran fine. However, when I saved the stack as a standalone the Abstract Report did not run. The standalone was NOT frozen. I could immediately run other features without problem.
>> 
>> Since the Abstract Report uses several stack-level functions, I tried adding some “answer” alerts to try to find the bottleneck. All of the “answer” alerts came back under the IDE, and the Abstract Report ran as expected. However, in the standalone, the first couple “answer” alerts came back, but then NOTHING. It was the “answer” alert that I added at the start of a function called getBiblio() that did not come back, and the Abstract Report stopped running.
>> 
>> Now the getBiblio() function is fairly complex. So I replaced it with a three-line function whose first line was an “answer” alert to tell me that the function was running. Under the IDE the “answer” alert came back, but in the standalone, nothing! 
>> 
>> Oh, and one more thing. This was all under Livecode 9.0.1 and also 9.6.0. I also tried compiling the standalone under LC 8.1.9 with the same result. However, when I saved the stack in Livecode 7.0 format, and compiled the standalone using Livecode 7.1.4, all of the “answer” alerts came back and the Abstract Report worked fine!
>> 
>> Any thoughts about this would be greatly appreciated!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Bruce Pokras
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