Ok...how do I make sure I see the error in the release player? Some of the interactions for our application are dependent on resources I cannot access from my dev environment, so most testing must happen on a VM and I can't even attach the debugger since my Mac does not have the stuff it needs for now.
Yes, it is silly but no other options yet. Thanks, - Todd --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 >
