Well darned it I just went back and tried again, making the variable a global and it did NOT crash to desktop!! How odd!
Bob On Jan 24, 2012, at 9:28 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Bob Sneidar <bobs@...> writes: > >> though. This is a feature that used to work. I know because GLX2 used to do > this successfully. > > You're confusing breakpoints and watched variables. It used to be that you > couldn't set a watch on a global variable, but that bug (6506) was fixed in > version 4.5.2. If you're using PowerDebug for this, just click to the left of > the global name in the global variables display at the top. If you're using > the > IDE, do whatever (sorry, I can't remember). If you want to do this by script, > > put the watchedvariables into tVars > put "","",tVariableName,tValue & cr after tVars > set the watchedvariables to tVars > > where tValue can be empty to match any value > > -- > Mark Wieder > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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