On 7/18/04 11:06 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I'd like to make v2.6 final soon
Speaking of which, I just spent a frustrating session trying to debug why the MC IDE went nuts during the initialization of the plug-in menu item. Turns out if you put an OS X alias to a file into the plug-ins folder, you get some really weird debugging results (on OS 10.2.8, anyway.) No local variables are listed in the Variable Watcher and it doesn't matter where you place a breakpoint, you can't debug. At one point, I went into the Cyclical Error Message of Death. It took me a while to figure out that the problem was OS X aliases.
This doesn't look like a script problem per se, but rather an engine problem. I've had trouble with some versions of the Rev engine recognizing aliases in the past. However, it might be a good idea for the Plug-ins Manager to check the file types in the plug-ins folder to see if there are any aliases, and if so, warn the user and skip trying to load those. You should probably also filter the file list to remove the alias entries because I think the problem is when the script tries to work with the list -- but it is hard to tell because you can't pinpoint where the bug is. All I know is that it's really a mess if aliases are in there.
You think?
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