I didn't get the error message but I'm sure the cause was the same. I'm thinking maybe this should be reported as a bug. It's puzzling why LC should be chasing down global variables it doesn't care about and not being prepared to deal with slashes I guess is a side effect of that. Plus there's lots of variables that have slashes in them.
I don;t see that variable on my computer right now so I guess Chrome only creates it under certain circumstances. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Phil Davis <rev...@pdslabs.net> wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Chrome is my default browser too. Here is what I posted when it happened: > >> Apparently Google Chrome defined a global on my Mac that is crippling all >> my versions of LiveCode. LC can't do ANYTHING that requires dealing with >> globals - like opening the script editor - because it runs into this global >> var name and doesn't know what to do with it (I assume because of the >> slashes in the var name). >> >> I went back to Rev 4.0 and tried to edit a script; I get this error >> message: >> >> | executing at 9:09:00 PM >> Type do: error in source expression >> Object Variables >> Line do tStatement >> Hint global >> $COM_GOOGLE_CHROME_FRAMEWORK_SERVICE_PROCESS/USERS/PHIL/LIBRARY/APPLICATION_SUPPORT/GOOGLE/CHROME_SOCKET >> | >> Note the global name in the "Hint" line above: >> COM_GOOGLE_CHROME_FRAMEWORK_SERVICE_PROCESS/USERS/PHIL/LIBRARY/APPLICATION_SUPPORT/GOOGLE/CHROME_SOCKET >> >> >> I opened Terminal and typed "set" to see the vars defined, and there it >> was with a value of "/tmp/launch-FbX6le/ServiceProcessSocket". >> >> Now my question... How do I delete it from the Terminal command line? I >> don't remember! Hellllpppp! >> >> Has anyone else seen this? >> >> Thanks for any help you can offer. >> > Thankfully a computer restart took care of it. > > On 5/7/11 4:45 PM, Pete wrote: > >> Hi Phil, >> I'm thinking my problem was the same as yours. If I right-clicked a >> control >> then selected the Edit Script option, the cursor changed to a watch and no >> script editor window was displayed. Repeated the same thing and I got a >> script editor window. I could edit scripts OK but if I clicked the >> Variables tab, the variables displayed briefly then disappeared again. >> >> I use Google Chrome as my main browser so I'll bet it was the same >> problem. >> Out of interest, do you know what the variable name was? >> >> Pete >> Molly's Revenge<http://www.mollysrevenge.com> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Phil Davis<rev...@pdslabs.net> wrote: >> >> Hi Paul, >>> >>> Can you edit scripts OK? This reminds me of a weird LC problem I had a >>> few >>> days ago that was caused by the existence of a global (an environment >>> variable created by Google Chrome apparently) that had slashes in the >>> name. >>> It went away when I restarted my machine. >>> >>> On 5/7/11 3:54 PM, paul foraker wrote: >>> >>> This problem is happening on my iMac, 10.6.7, with all versions of Rev >>>> and >>>> LiveCode on my drive. None of them has a functioning Message Box. I can >>>> type >>>> in it, but cannot execute. I have no stacks in use, and no plugins >>>> loaded. >>>> >>>> -- >>> Phil Davis >>> >>> PDS Labs >>> Professional Software Development >>> http://pdslabs.net >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > -- > Phil Davis > > PDS Labs > Professional Software Development > http://pdslabs.net > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
