Re: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-21 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Not to cast aspersions on anyone's work, but there is an alternate script editor that misbehaved in a similar way when switching between the native editor and the alternate one. That has been ironed out some time ago, but for the sake of historical accuracy... well... there you go. Bob S > O

Re: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-21 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
dunbarx wrote: > All. > It did just occur to me that ALL my crashes occur when the SE is open. > Never just playing with the stack. I am trying to remember now whether > I am modifying code or not when the crash occurs. The problem, > (actually the beauty, of course) of LiveCode is that one can ju

Re: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-21 Thread dunbarx--- via use-livecode
SE rapidly as one develops.  I will have to pay more attention. Aha. Craig -Original Message- From: J. Landman Gay via use-livecode To: How to use LiveCode Cc: J. Landman Gay Sent: Fri, Feb 21, 2020 3:24 pm Subject: Re: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving

Re: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-21 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 2/21/20 2:44 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: J. Landman Gay jacque wrote: > We're about to submit the iOS app now and my testers have had several > intermittent crashes we can't repeat, even though I built that one > with 9.5.1 stable. I submitted crash logs but the team could on

Re: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-21 Thread dunbarx--- via use-livecode
crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both) Chiming in again since it dovetails with today's work: Crashing bugs (and others) sometimes require a missing factor/context/detail in the original real-world project that is tricky to reproduce in independent test stacks. You ha

RE: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-21 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
I have an IDE bug that I have to get a recipe for. It might not be possible to whittle this one down and I might have to send Panos the full stack with data files off line. 1) After the openCard message is passed to the engine if the script editor is open the engine loops for 5-10 seconds before t

Re: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-21 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Chiming in again since it dovetails with today's work: Crashing bugs (and others) sometimes require a missing factor/context/detail in the original real-world project that is tricky to reproduce in independent test stacks. You have to compensate for that. I filed this crasher today, but had

Re: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-21 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay jacque wrote: > We're about to submit the iOS app now and my testers have had several > intermittent crashes we can't repeat, even though I built that one > with 9.5.1 stable. I submitted crash logs but the team could only > repeat the problem once and there's no real recipe. How >

Re: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-20 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I'm having the same problem. I had to build with the latest 9.6dp release because it fixed some Android issues and I had a deadline. It's in the Play Store now and it's had several crashes and ANRS. There's no info on the cause and we couldn't repeat it. We're about to submit the iOS app now and

Re: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-20 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
dunbarx wrote:> Richard. > I will keep a eye out to see if something I do or some particular > section of code which causes a crash. > I have no issue with sending you my stack; it is only for internal > use. But there are many handlers in many controls on many cards, all > in a mainStack and a h

Re: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-20 Thread dunbarx--- via use-livecode
bject: Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both) dunbarx wrote: > Richard wrote: >> Crashers are of course serious, but the good news is that you're only >> seeing it in one project.  Feel free to email me directly if you're >> in a posit

Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)

2020-02-20 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
dunbarx wrote: > Richard wrote: >> Crashers are of course serious, but the good news is that you're only >> seeing it in one project. Feel free to email me directly if you're >> in a position to allow me to review the errant code, and I'll see >> what we can do to both find a workaround to keep