weird system global name is crippling LC!

[Phil Davis]

I restarted my machine and this problem went away. I thought that only worked on 
Windows!  ;-)

Phil


On 5/3/11 10:06 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
> Help!
>
> Apparently Google Chrome defined a global on my Mac that is crippling all my 
> versions of LiveCode. LC can't do ANYTHING that requires dealing with globals 
> - like opening the script editor - because it runs into this global var name 
> and doesn't know what to do with it (I assume because of the slashes in the 
> var name).
>
> I went back to Rev 4.0 and tried to edit a script; I get this error message:
>
> |        executing at 9:09:00 PM
> Type    do: error in source expression
> Object  Variables
> Line    do tStatement
> Hint    global 
> $COM_GOOGLE_CHROME_FRAMEWORK_SERVICE_PROCESS/USERS/PHIL/LIBRARY/APPLICATION_SUPPORT/GOOGLE/CHROME_SOCKET
> |
> Note the global name in the "Hint" line above:
> COM_GOOGLE_CHROME_FRAMEWORK_SERVICE_PROCESS/USERS/PHIL/LIBRARY/APPLICATION_SUPPORT/GOOGLE/CHROME_SOCKET 
>
>
> I opened Terminal and typed "set" to see the vars defined, and there it was 
> with a value of "/tmp/launch-FbX6le/ServiceProcessSocket".
>
> Now my question... How do I delete it from the Terminal command line? I don't 
> remember! Hellllpppp!
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.

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Phil Davis

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