Empty error dialogs

[J. Landman Gay]

The stack is, in fact, password protected. But we get other error 
reports where the info is filled in, which is more usual. Weird.

On 6/18/19 1:24 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote:
> I've seen the "empty error dialog" on password protected stacks.
> 
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 2:02 PM
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> Cc: J. Landman Gay
> Subject: Empty error dialogs
> 
> Some users are getting empty script error dialogs in a standalone. The
> errors are infrequent, sporadic, always in different places in the app, not
> repeatable. When they happen, the user can repeat their last action and it
> works without error. We get these reports because the standalone has error
> reporting turned on.
> 
> An example:
> 
> Object: field 'XXX' of card 'YYY' of stack 'ZZZ'
> 
> Line:
> 
> Line Num:
> 
> Hint:
> 
> The identified object and card is always different. I should mention that
> the current desktop app was built in a much older version of LC.
> 
> I assume the lack of reference info is because the script couldn't compile,
> but then why only sometimes and never on a second try? I also assumed the
> error(s) were in a LC library, mostly because if it were my own scripts I'd
> think there would be more information.
> 
> This is mostly a curiosity question since no real harm is done to the user
> data.
> 


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