Anomalous Script behavior

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Peter.


There is no limit to the size of a script; LC is not HC.


But that was easy. To your real question, I am positive, and this does indeed go back to HC, that certain handlers will work one day and not the next. That some will work if I step through them, but not run normally.


And that this comes and goes, but generally somehow works itself out, so that after a bit of angst, the gremlin goes away, and rarely leaves me with the issue. 


Not to say that on occasion I simply rewrite a handler, if it is not too long, and then it works. Hidden spurious chars? Hidden spurious chars that evaporate? I suspect others believe the same, and similar tales will, in aggregate, be like one of those TV shows about haunted houses. 


There are mysteries...


Craig Newman



-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at me.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 1:16 am
Subject: Anomalous Script behavior


Using LC 7.1 dp1

Part of a script sometimes doesn’t function—sometimes it
works just fine. Sometimes it refuses to continue to execute the rest of a
handler. This refusal will happen over and over until some point in my testing
it starts working again beautifully.

It’s a group script with 35,655
characters. Is there a limit to the number of characters?

I put in
breakpoints that are sometimes reached, sometimes not.

It’s a handler that is
being called by callbacks in a player as the media plays, so it’s difficult to
debug while the media is playing. So I put some code in to put data into a field
when those lines of the script are reached. Then I can see the progression
through the script in real time. When it’s not working properly, while the
handler IS receiving the callback calls, that field stays empty.

Any
ideas?

Peter
Bogdanoff
UCLA
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