Binding swallows all errors.
Also note that on the release players (you are running a debugger player) no dialogs are shown for uncaught errors. ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of twcrone70 Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:36 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Error thrown in application is being 'swallowed' If there is a critical failure in my applications I make sure to throw and error to bring the system down so that nothing fails quietly that can't be recovered from gracefully. However, I just found a case where a custom Error instance is thrown and even though it is not being caught in code, it never causes an Flash error window to appear, it just quits that particular operation and carries on like nothing happened. It is a case for a VO parsing a CSV. If the number of tokens is less than the required amount, an Error is thrown because the CSV should ALWAYS have the specific number of tokens (or more) when I call 'split'. Turns out it ignore the case where there was only 4 tokens when 5 are required. The code is trivial. var words:Array = message.split( "," ); if ( words.length < 5 ) { throw new InvalidMessageError( message, "Device information messages require 5 fields, not " + words.length ); } Anyone else experience this in Flex or Flash? Thanks, - Todd
