formattedRect, formattedLeft, formattedWidth of chunks

[Bob Sneidar]

When data causes the crash it’s the worst. I had an issue with drag-dropping text from a PDF not knowing that Adobe uses all kinds of non-printing characters. I wrote a cleanASCII function for just that purpose


Bob S


On Sep 1, 2020, at 3:52 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:

If you control the content, it is probably not an issue. In our case, the content and the ranges (char x to y) are set by the people that use our product - we have no control - so we end up with customer's trying to do their research and suddenly our product hard crashes, sometimes resulting in lost work. They don't understand why since bunches of other documents they are working with all process fine. Even the document that is causing the crash may seem fine UNTIL they add a bookmarked range that includes the tabs. As tabs are invisible in MS-Word and a lot of MS-Word user are not really skilled at formatting, they may end up with tabs in their documents that they are not even aware they are there.

This one really was a pain to track down as we had to get a customer, with the crashing, who was willing to provide their whole research study so we could reproducethe error in-house and then tracing it down in the IDE took a very long time to go through the 1000's of lines of code to find the crash on the 'formattedRect' call.


On 9/1/2020 5:49 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
I have a great many of these. I’ll keep a lookout.

Bob S