Error in DG row behaviour crashing LC?

[Richard Gaskin]

James Hale wrote:
> Richard Gaskin wrote
>> It would be helpful to check this under the current versions of v7 and
>> v7 (7.1.3rc1 and 8.0dp15 respectively), and if the crash recurs in
>> either please submit a bug report.
>
> Interestingly I attempted to do just that. But rather than threaten the app
> I am working on (one crash did strange things to all the fonts on relaunch)
> I decided to make a test stack to submit.
>
> This was both good news and bad news.
>
> Bad news: Couldn't reproduce the crash - obviously not simply what I
> initially thought.
> Good news: In trying to reproduce the crash I ended up getting the DG to
> work as I originally wanted.
>
> Moral of the story: Making a simplified stack to demonstrate a "bug" can
> bring all sorts of gifts.

Hmmmm...now I have that nagging awareness of a crasher bug somewhere in 
the engine...

If you have time it might be helpful to make a copy of your stack and 
try that in v8 again, and if you get a reproducible recipe send a report 
to the team and make arrangements to send that stack to them separately 
(they're quite good about working with proprietary stacks and disposing 
of them once they've resolved the issue).

On the other hand, it may just be bit rot. I've seen that with some 
JPEGs in my archives, and while rare it could affect any file.  Storage 
devices and RAM are as imperfect as everything else we work with on this 
planet (one more reason to spring the extra bugs for ECC RAM when you 
mobo supports it).

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