Small and strange problem

[Ben Rubinstein]

And re this part:

 >> 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

You're not seeing that there was an error thrown because 'tError' would be set 
to the error message; the code above is testing for it being true, before 
deciding to display the message. But it won't be true it, it will be an 
expression of the error. If you removed "if tError then", so always execute 
the answer statement in the catch section, you should see the error message.

HTH,

Ben


On 11/05/2020 15:31, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote:
> 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
>>
>> ???