----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Plaenitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Even subtle details may matter here. Therefore, the above notation has to > be corrected. Pranav's example > (http://www.geocities.com/pranav_negandhi/freaky_chakra_2.jpg) reads: > > -- Welcome to Director -- > put value("") > -- <Void>
Well, I don't think that's important.
May be important, may be not. Trying to follow Colin's hypothesis it did make a difference. And when hunting an arcane anomaly like this one it is good praxis to avoid any random effects / noise.
If you look at the way I reproduced Pranav's original results, I typed my own code into an exitFrame handler and ran it. It continually returned VOID. Then I saved it, closed it and opened it again, with *no changes* either to the movie, my version of Director, or my system - that time it gave 0's. I have not since been able to get it to return VOID, but the *exact same code* gave different results at different times with the exact same configuration.
the *exact same code* is only what you see. I have had at least one case where directors symbol table was influenced by snippets of code that had been *deleted* but *still* were part of the .dir file. Invisible from within director. Visible as a string when examining the .dir with a hex editor. Valid in defining if symbol("Paul") would return #paul or #Paul.
So, yes, I believe there are monsters and mysteries down there, including features with 6 legs.
Up to now it is pranav and you who saw the beast and it might help if any of you could post the file which did it. Even if it doesn't show the effect any more, just to define a common basis.
colin: the jpg looks like vanilla Courier to me.
daniel
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