Strange behavior of the IDE?

[Peter Haworth]

Yes, everything you said matches what I've experienced.  There have been
other threads about it too.  It may already have been reported as a bug

Pete
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:

> Pete, thanks for the quick reply. Neither of those things work for me.
> There is even odder stuff: if I put breakpoints in earlier code and click
> through that code to the point where the breakpoints stop working, then the
> 'strange' code is executed, although it doesn't stop at its own
> breakpoints. If I just let the program run, by clicking on the 'run'
> triangle every time it reaches a working breakpoint, the code in the
> problematic section isn't executed, or not all of it - for example I have
> become sufficiently desperate to introduce a simple logging function that
> puts lines of text into a field. In the 'just run it' case, the log doesn't
> show, and in the other case, I get log entries. This is all extremely
> strange. I've tried quitting and restarting etc but so far nothing has
> worked. Reluctantly I will try to report it as a bug.
>
> Graham
>
> On 27 Feb 2014, at 21:33, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > I've experienced this from time to time and it's very frustrating.
> >
> > Have you tried inserting a "breakpoint" command at the start of your
> > function rather than a "red dot" breakpoint?
> >
> > I've sometimes found that the statement following the breakpoint is
> somehow
> > syntactically incorrect in a way that isn't caught during compile, which
> > seems to cause LC to just give up.  Sorry to be so vague but I can't
> > remember the exact details.
> >
> > On another occasion, I ended up putting a lock messages command in my
> code
> > (when I was in "try anything" mode) which fixed the problem, but I have
> no
> > idea why.
> >
> >
> > Pete
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> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to debug a sequence of code with some repeat loops and stuff
> in
> >> it. I'm using LC 6.5.2 on Apple Mavericks 10.9.1 - but I've just tested
> >> this on a far older version of LC (5.5.4) and I get the same problem:
> >>
> >> I have put a number of breakpoints in the code, and when I start
> executing
> >> it, the breakpoints do indeed stop the code running as expected. But
> then I
> >> come to a point where the code seems to rush ahead, taking no notice of
> the
> >> breakpoints. Specifically, I start tracing before calling a certain
> >> function with this statement
> >>
> >> put myFunction(myParameter) into field "myField"
> >>
> >> The first line of the function has a breakpoint in it, but as soon as
> >> execution moves to the function, none of the breakpoints within it
> apply.
> >> It's as if I'd clicked on the 'step over' button in the IDE instead of
> the
> >> 'step into', but I haven't. This is entirely repeatable. What did I do
> >> wrong? I suppose it may be a bug, but I rather dread cutting it down to
> a
> >> simple example. Has anyone any idea what is causing this?
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >> Graham
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