I was actually modifying my deflate-ed data to give it a header that would make it compatible - hopefully. I didn't have high hopes that that would work, but I DID expect the decompress() function to NOT crash. I'd call that a bug. The function shouldn't crash the script if it gets bad data - It should report the error in the return value (or in "the result") and continue on.
~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:28 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 2/25/11 9:15 AM, Nonsanity wrote: > >> Well I'm having a conversation with myself here, but I can't seem to get >> the >> decompress() function to work. it keeps giving me an unhelpful error: >> >> Script compile error: >> Error description: Object Name: >> >> If I feed it binary data that came from compress(), it's fine and dandy. >> But >> send it anything else and the script aborts with that error. You would >> think >> it would return a helpful error value if the data was malformed in some >> way. >> And it seems not to like the data I need to re-inflate. >> > > Those two functions are for gzip only. You can't give it any other kind of > data. RevZip and gzip are different. > > The error is probably blank because LiveCode doesn't know what went wrong > exactly, only that it can't continue. That's actually an improvement over > older behavior, where the error would default to the first line in the error > list if there wasn't a match, giving incorrect info. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
