There's pretty persuasive evidence now that the shadowed variable bug is caused by stopping a debug run early. Since I trained myself to let debug run to the end of its natural course, I have not seen the problem. Hopefully that will help the team figure out the cause and fix it.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:12 PM Dr. Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Devin Asay <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have seen this and can reproduce it reliably. On a Mac, if you have two > > monitors (or more I suppose), and you open a script editor window, it > > initially opens on the same screen as your LiveCode IDE; on the "main > > screen” as determined by the OS. After that I typically move the script > > editor window to the second monitor. I find that if the top of the script > > editor window is higher than the tool bar on the main screen, I get this > > hot spot offset problem. Once I move the window downward on the second > > monitor it goes away. I ought to have reported it, but I’ve gotten to > where > > I automatically just move the window down to avoid the problem. > > > > Does this seem to be the same thing you’re getting? > > > > I had never nailed down this combination, but it's certainly consistent > with what I see. > > When I'm using two monitors (most of the time), the code screen is almost > always on the external. I have code in openStack that opens the scripts of > my main code sections. However, if the main stack script won't compile, I > have to manually move it--and there frequency of this is similar to the > displacement bug. Next time it bites, I'll try moving the window back to > the main screen. > > As I have to restart livened three to four times in a typical hour (the > shadow declaration bug), the displacement bug bites a couple of times in a > typical full day of coding. > > > > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
