Re: another day lost to the ide and crashes

2015-04-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 9:08 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Does it happen if you open the stack from the LC menu instead of double clicking the stack in Finder to launch? Yes. I had to open LC, turn off messages, and then open file to place my checkpoints. Just to

Re: another day lost to the ide and crashes

2015-04-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On April 18, 2015 9:44:03 PM CDT, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: It appears to be related to sending a message that assumes the existence of a file or edit window button too early during startup (during openstack)--but I can't really tell. The reason I think that is that if I used an

Re: another day lost to the ide and crashes

2015-04-19 Thread Curry Kenworthy
Richard E. Hawkins: I spent a full *five* hours today trying to track a presumably bad line of code--because whichever it was, it was causing the ide to crash, rather than throw an error. This may not be relevant to your issue, but keeping the LiveCode Debug mode on can cause the IDE to

Re: another day lost to the ide and crashes

2015-04-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:14 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Red dot breakpoints don't always trigger early in the startup sequence but often typing the word breakpoint into the script will work. It's a useful way to debug in pre-whatever handlers. I wasn't even fighting

Re: another day lost to the ide and crashes

2015-04-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On April 19, 2015 10:38:15 AM CDT, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: Even breakpoint isn't enough until there has been some user interaction; I have to use answer, then breakpoint, to get it to stop. This was a matter of not being able to stop the hard crash of the IDE itself, and the