Hi Graham, Thank you for the update. Sorry to hear about the flood, I know from personal experience what that’s like so I really wish you and your family well, and that you can get your home and life back in to normal very soon..
Paul > On May 14, 2020, at 03:17, Graham Samuel via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi Paul > > Sorry for the delay in replying but my house has just been inundated (it > happened on Monday and we are still clearing up! Worst flood in more than 40 > years in my French village). Anyway, the bug is registered as 22730. The > problem is acknowledged - as I said in my submission, I’m not claiming my > coding is correct, I’m just trying to show that the IDE doesn’t behave > consistently in this instance. > > Graham > >> On 11 May 2020, at 23:18, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Good point Ben, looks like that was my mistake. I don’t remember where I >> learned to use "if tError then”, but what I forgot was that it should have >> been testing for a false condition, so “if not tError then” does show the >> error when one occurs and skips when no error occurs. >> >> Fixing this returns the following error when tMins contains a non numeric >> character; >> An Error Occurred; 375,5,1 >> 239,5,1 >> 465,5,1 >> tMins = 31′ >> >> These are the corresponding LC Error Codes; >> 375 Operators /: error in left operand >> 239 Operators (): error in right operand >> 465 put: error in expression >> >> So it seems the value passed to tMins may contain invalid character(s) as >> Graham suspects. However, this doesn’t explain why the original script >> should behave differently using the debugger and not. >> >> @Graham, can you post the Bug Report Number please? >> >> Paul >> >> >>> On May 11, 2020, at 09:11, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode >>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> >>> And re this part: >>> >>>>> Interestingly this >>>>> >>>>> on mouseUp pMouseButton >>>>> try >>>>> put (tMins/60) into tMins >>>>> catch tError >>>>> if tError then answer "An Error Occurred;" && tError & return & "tMins >>>>> =" && tMins >>>>> end try >>>>> end mouseUp >>>>> >>>>> does NOT through an error or a catch error message >>> >>> You're not seeing that there was an error thrown because 'tError' would be >>> set to the error message; the code above is testing for it being true, >>> before deciding to display the message. But it won't be true it, it will be >>> an expression of the error. If you removed "if tError then", so always >>> execute the answer statement in the catch section, you should see the error >>> message. >>> >>> HTH, >>> >>> Ben >>> >>> >>> On 11/05/2020 15:31, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: >>>> Hi Andy, >>>> Yes, tMins has to have a value or the statement makes no sense because LC >>>> has no >>>> context for what you are trying to do. LC doesn’t know if tMins is a >>>> string or something else. >>>> Rick >>>>> On May 11, 2020, at 4:24 AM, AndyP via use-livecode >>>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I seem to have my posts dropped at the moment hence this, >>>>> >>>>> I'm seeing the same error >>>>> >>>>> with >>>>> >>>>> on mouseUp pMouseButton >>>>> put (tMins/60) into tMins >>>>> answer tMins >>>>> end mouseUp >>>>> >>>>> button "Button": execution error at line 2 (Operators /: error in left >>>>> operand), char 1 >>>>> >>>>> Interestingly this >>>>> >>>>> on mouseUp pMouseButton >>>>> try >>>>> put (tMins/60) into tMins >>>>> catch tError >>>>> if tError then answer "An Error Occurred;" && tError & return & "tMins >>>>> =" && tMins >>>>> end try >>>>> end mouseUp >>>>> >>>>> does NOT through an error or a catch error message >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> If however tMins is initialized then all works as expected >>>>> >>>>> on mouseUp pMouseButton >>>>> put 20 into tMins >>>>> put (tMins/60) into tMins >>>>> answer tMins >>>>> end mouseUp >>>>> >>>>> ??? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
