ASCII LF (line feed) is the LiveCode NewLine, so perhaps you mean the CR, carriage return. That LiveCode calls the newline the return character adds to the confusion.
I too have had bad lines show up that had to be retyped. There might be a range of control characters that cause problems. Retyping the line has been my solution, too. Dar On Sep 19, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > A card script that I had made using 4.6.1 was causing a script error in a > button when used in 4.6.4. The button script had no problem, but it did call > into an unrelated handler in the same card script where the problem line was. > > It turned out that one line in that card script had an invisible line feed > character in it. The way line feeds is handled changed in 4.6.3, and whereas > before scripts could have such line feed characters in them without a > problem, now they can't. > > There was a clue to where the problem was, in that on opening the stack there > was a script error that showed for the line after the one that was the real > problem. The line it claimed was wrong had no problems, but because of the > line feed character the error was really referring to the second half of the > line before the one that was referring to. > > Aside from using a bit of abstract thinking to figure it all out, one clue to > there being a rogue line feed character is that if you comment out the > script, the letters after where the line feed is located don't turn green. If > that happens, selecting the line and retyping exactly what you see will fix > it. > > So, if you have a stack that worked fine with 4.6.2, but shows problems in > 4.6.3 or later, and the line that it's complaining about seems perfectly > good, comment out the line before that one, and see if the text all turns > green. If it doesn't, retype the line. > > I suspect the line feed got in there in the first place by me copying and > pasting an example line of code from the documentation. Not the Help perhaps, > but the earlier iPhone docs. > _______________________________________________ > 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 --------------------------- Dar Scott dba Dar Scott Consulting 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, home, office phone: +1 505 299 9497 For Skype and fax, please contact. d...@swcp.com Computer Programming and tinkering, often making LiveCode libraries and externals, sometimes writing associated microcontroller firmware. --------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
