Hi Jacque, I've definitely seen values disappear after compiling the script for a long time but didn't worry abut it too much since that only happens during development not in production versions.
Like you, I haven't been able to come up with a recipe to reliably reproduce it. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:56 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 2/22/14, 12:17 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> I think this is dependant on the Variable Preservation setting on the >> Preferences Script Editor tab. >> > > It is, but there's a bug in it somewhere. I use script locals extensively > and they always worked until somewhere around version 6.x. After that the > values were occasionally lost. Every subsequent version has made the > problem worse, and now I lose them so often that I've had to add a reload > of the values to almost every handler I'm debugging. > > Since I can't find a consistent recipe (sometimes they do work) I haven't > reported it yet, but it's making my life difficult. All I know is that it > happens some time after I change a script, but not every time, so I'm at a > loss. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
