On 2/20/20 11:56 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
On the forums we see a another, with surprising frequency: when the behavior of a script is not understood, the poster will sometimes surmise that the cause is somehow file format corruption. Many cases turn out to be just syntax errors, and IIRC few or none of those have turned out to be file format corruption.
So here's one for you: As I've mentioned before, I don't use 9.6dpx for anything serious. I've been working with LC9.6dp2 lately to see if my stacks still work with the latest builds and I've been coming up with interesting results.
At least twice now I've been editing scripts with two tabs open in the script editor. After dutifully saving my changes I close the IDE and relaunch to ensure a clean slate. I see that my stack crashes horribly because the script I was editing has been saved into the wrong object (the other script I was editing). Luckily backups saved me.
I have two different corrupted stacks after editing them (one of the corrupted stacks is your 4wdevolution stack - happy to send it your way if desired). Again backups saved the day. Made the same changes to the stack and it works fine.
One of my stacks that behaved properly in LC9.5.1 consistently crashed my distro's desktop manager in LC9.6dp2 (any edition), having to be restarted. I just spent two days trying to figure out if I was doing something wrong or something changed in LC itself, and it turns out to be a combination. The cef browser code has changed enough that just instantiating a browser widget is enough to cause havoc, so I now sidestep some previously-working code and hope that still works when we get dp3.
Yes, I realize that these are dp releases and shouldn't be considered stable, but it's gotten to the point where I don't know whether problems I come across are bugs in my code, bugs in the latest LC build, or upcoming changes to The Way Things Work.
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