Cloning oddity

David Squance squance at elkvalley.net
Sun Jan 25 10:23:46 EST 2004


>--- David Squance <squance at elkvalley.net> wrote:
>> I'm not saying there's corruption.  I'm just looking
>> for any suggestion as
>> to how it might be diagnosed.  The debugger is no
>> help, as the script just
>> stops running.  The card is cloned--a second copy is
>> in place, but the next
>> line of the script is not executed.  That line just
>> increases a variable by
>> 1, which would show in the variable watcher, if it
>> happened.
>> Dave
>>
>
>Hi Dave,
>
>Sorry to come so lae to the discussion but this
>reminds me of a problem I had last year : I cloned a
>stack, and the rest of the script didn't get executed.
>
>I narrowed it down to one of the messages in the
>preOpenStack/openStack/preOpenCard/openCard chain
>coming to a grinding halt when passed all the way to
>the engine.
>
>However, adding a 'lock messages' didn't solve the
>problem in the IDE, but it worked perfectly fine in
>the standalone ; so in the end, I decided to just
>suspend the IDE whenever I needed to run the script.
>
>Maybe I should spend some time putting together a good
>trouble stack.
>
>Jan Schenkel.

Thanks for the reply.  I thought suspending the IDE would
avoid the problem, too, since the standalone works fine.
However, it was even worse, as I had to force quit Rev.
Dave




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