Small and strange problem

Rick Harrison harrison at all-auctions.com
Mon May 11 10:31:18 EDT 2020


Hi Andy,

Yes, tMins has to have a value or the statement makes no sense because LC has no
context for what you are trying to do.  LC doesn’t know if tMins is a string or something else.

Rick


> On May 11, 2020, at 4:24 AM, AndyP via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I seem to have my posts dropped at the moment hence this,
> 
> I'm seeing the same error
> 
> with 
> 
> on mouseUp pMouseButton
>  put (tMins/60) into tMins
>  answer tMins
> end mouseUp
> 
> button "Button": execution error at line 2 (Operators /: error in left operand), char 1
> 
> Interestingly this
> 
> on mouseUp pMouseButton
>  try
>    put (tMins/60) into tMins
>  catch tError
>    if tError then answer "An Error Occurred;"  && tError & return & "tMins =" && tMins
>  end try
> end mouseUp
> 
> does NOT through an error or a catch error message
> 
> 
> If however tMins is initialized then all works as expected
> 
> on mouseUp pMouseButton
>  put 20 into tMins
>  put (tMins/60) into tMins
>  answer tMins
> end mouseUp
> 
> ???
> 
> 
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