A couple of comments.
Please read my article on DOUG about the debugger:
http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=871
As I say in the article mentioned above, if you are not using the
debugger, you are just wasting your time.
Jakob is correct here that you should use "the currentSpriteNum" or
even just "spriteNum" to get the channel number of the current
sprite. In the code you are showing, you are taking a sprite
reference, and then taking an integer function of that - definitely
not what you really want to do.
Also, when you put a breakpoint on a line of code, the debugger stops
execution of Lingo BEFORE that line is executed. If you want to see
the results of what happened in a line of code, you must "step" (the
first of the three green buttons), then look at your variables.
Alternatively, put your breakpoint on the line after the line in
question.
As an aside, 99.999% of the time, using the debugger will not make
your code behave differently. It is just a tool that allows you to
analyze what is going on in your program. In the odd .001% of the
time, the use of the debugger somehow changes the environment. For
years now, I've been calling this the "Heisenberg Uncertainty
Principle of Debugging". (Check your Phsics books for obscure
references ...)
Irv
At 10:56 AM +0000 10/30/01, Jamie Dyer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Has anyone else encountered this problem?
>I have a movie thats on the brink of working propperly but needs a bit
>of debugging. I have set a breakpoint on this line of code:
>
>Snum = (sprite(the currentSpriteNum)).integer
>
>when I dont use a break point and use a put Snum then I get a value of 1
>or over depening on which channel the sprite in on. When I set the break
>point then Sum has a value of 0 all the time, even if I issue a put Snum
>it still returns as 0. There is no difference in the script at all,
>apart from the breakpoint. Returning the sprite number as 0 breaks my
>movie.
>
>Is this some strange bug in director, or am I using the debugger
>incorrectly? I have never used the debugger before, I have always
>debugged my code by using put commands. But now I find its a little to
>complex to correct using put.
>
>Also, using the watcher, can you only watch global vars? I dont seam to
>be able to watch local ones.
>
>I have searched through the help files, macromedia website, and searched
>google to no avail, there is little, if any, documentation at all on the
>debugger.
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