Re: a quarter of a datapoint on those #()&%)(8 wandering red dots
Soft breakpoints both wander and become sterile. Edits in a handler, even if the line order does not change, nor the total number of lines, can render a softie useless. It is both the most important and least important change I wish the team would address (pun intended). Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Bob Sneidar To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Mon, Oct 17, 2016 3:58 pm Subject: Re: a quarter of a datapoint on those #()&%)(8 wandering red dots The fact that they are red should have tipped you off. The only way I use the red dots is as a quick breakpoint while a script is already running, where I cannot type the breakpoint command. Once I edit the script, I clear whatever dots I set and if necessary set them again. They survive between compiles, but once you compile a script they will wander, or be ignored altogether if they fall on a comment or blank line. And it doesn't matter if you make the edits before or after the soft breakpoint either. Bob S On Oct 17, 2016, at 12:53 , Dr. Hawkins mailto:doch...@gmail.com>> wrote: I may have, by chance, stumbled upon something. The evil red dots have a tendency to wander, sometimes a line or two, and sometimes wildly. I just discovered that I had two versions of the same button, in two copies of a group. I *think* that after deleting the extraneous group, it's buttons may have migrated to the "canonical " button of the same name. I had just cleared them entirely in the canonical group, added two, and a few minutes later, had many (naturally, in places that stopped while in a modal dialog . . .) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: a quarter of a datapoint on those #()&%)(8 wandering red dots
The fact that they are red should have tipped you off. The only way I use the red dots is as a quick breakpoint while a script is already running, where I cannot type the breakpoint command. Once I edit the script, I clear whatever dots I set and if necessary set them again. They survive between compiles, but once you compile a script they will wander, or be ignored altogether if they fall on a comment or blank line. And it doesn't matter if you make the edits before or after the soft breakpoint either. Bob S On Oct 17, 2016, at 12:53 , Dr. Hawkins mailto:doch...@gmail.com>> wrote: I may have, by chance, stumbled upon something. The evil red dots have a tendency to wander, sometimes a line or two, and sometimes wildly. I just discovered that I had two versions of the same button, in two copies of a group. I *think* that after deleting the extraneous group, it's buttons may have migrated to the "canonical " button of the same name. I had just cleared them entirely in the canonical group, added two, and a few minutes later, had many (naturally, in places that stopped while in a modal dialog . . .) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
a quarter of a datapoint on those #()&%)(8 wandering red dots
I may have, by chance, stumbled upon something. The evil red dots have a tendency to wander, sometimes a line or two, and sometimes wildly. I just discovered that I had two versions of the same button, in two copies of a group. I *think* that after deleting the extraneous group, it's buttons may have migrated to the "canonical " button of the same name. I had just cleared them entirely in the canonical group, added two, and a few minutes later, had many (naturally, in places that stopped while in a modal dialog . . .) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode