ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Tue Jul 19 12:58:45 EDT 2011


Interesting.

I have to say, in the past 10 years or so since I've been programming
commercial applications for my clients and our company, I do not recall
seeing such an error. In fact, this is the first time I've even heard of
them.

I, too, would like to know under what circumstances they are fired. It seems
like a bug to me in LC's error handling code if they continually pop up. I
suspect Richard knew about this from all his work with the MetaCard IDE.

2011/7/19 Björnke von Gierke <bvg at mac.com>

> I think one way to fuck up the error dialog is to supress messages when
> closing stacks by script, and then an error happens. At least this was a
> case I had about 3 years ago. There migth have been other particular
> settings or behaviour that triggered it, I don't remember exactly.
>
> And Rev error reporting is ass in general, not only when it fails to work
> as intendet :P
>
> On 19 Jul 2011, at 17:55, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
> > Mark Schonewille wrote:
> >
> > > Richard,
> > >
> > > Since you are a professional LiveCode programmer, just like me,
> > > I know that you know that one may see an error code of the form
> > > ###,###,###,xxxx once in a while, where # is a number and x is
> > > a letter. Seeing this error isn't necessarily a LiveCode bug.
> > > I have no idea why you assume it is.
> >
> > True, the format you describe is what the engine outputs when errors are
> encountered, sent as the argument to the errorDialog message.
> >
> > But the IDE's revBackScript includes an errorDialog handler which
> translates that into a conveniently readable form, also made available for
> inclusion in standalones in the Standalone Builder.
> >
> > Given that RunRev provides this lookup automatically, no one should ever
> see the raw error data in either the IDE or a standalone.
> >
> > If they do it means the errorDialog handler either wasn't triggered
> properly, or is somehow failing itself.
> >
> > So my interest is in identifying a recipe in which an errorDialog message
> is sent but the info is being displayed in raw form rather than the more
> readable format LiveCode normally provides.
> >
> >
> > > For further questions and comments on this product, you are welcome
> > > to contact me off-list.
> >
> > My question here was about the perception that LiveCode isn't reporting
> errors correctly.  If I have questions about your product I'll write you
> off-list.
> >
> > --
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