Cannot use Message Box

[Phil Davis]

Hi Pete,

Chrome is my default browser too. Here is what I posted when it happened:
> 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. 
Thankfully a computer restart took care of it.

On 5/7/11 4:45 PM, Pete wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> I'm thinking my problem was the same as yours.  If I right-clicked a control
> then selected the Edit Script option, the cursor changed to a watch and no
> script editor window was displayed.  Repeated the same thing and I got a
> script editor window.  I could edit scripts OK but if I clicked the
> Variables tab, the variables displayed briefly then disappeared again.
>
> I use Google Chrome as my main browser so I'll bet it was the same problem.
>   Out of interest, do you know what the variable name was?
>
> Pete
> Molly's Revenge<http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Phil Davis<revdev at pdslabs.net>  wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Can you edit scripts OK? This reminds me of a weird LC problem I had a few
>> days ago that was caused by the existence of a global (an environment
>> variable created by Google Chrome apparently) that had slashes in the name.
>> It went away when I restarted my machine.
>>
>> On 5/7/11 3:54 PM, paul foraker wrote:
>>
>>> This problem is happening on my iMac, 10.6.7, with all versions of Rev and
>>> LiveCode on my drive. None of them has a functioning Message Box. I can
>>> type
>>> in it, but cannot execute. I have no stacks in use, and no plugins loaded.
>>>
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