Bruce, did you already try the RemoteDebugger to debug your standalone?
http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/698439-using-the-remote-debugger - Matthias Rebbe Life Is Too Short For Boring Code > Am 19.07.2020 um 20:17 schrieb Bruce Pokras via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > I am having a very frustrating experience. I have an app called Patent > Grabber that is for downloading and searching for patents and published > patent applications. A user reported that one feature of Patent Grabber was > not working. That was the Abstract Report which takes a list of US patent > numbers and downloads basic information about each, and combines all of this > information into a single HTML file. > > When I tried the Abstract Report in the stack from which Patent Grabber was > compiled, the Abstract Report ran fine. However, when I saved the stack as a > standalone the Abstract Report did not run. The standalone was NOT frozen. I > could immediately run other features without problem. > > Since the Abstract Report uses several stack-level functions, I tried adding > some “answer” alerts to try to find the bottleneck. All of the “answer” > alerts came back under the IDE, and the Abstract Report ran as expected. > However, in the standalone, the first couple “answer” alerts came back, but > then NOTHING. It was the “answer” alert that I added at the start of a > function called getBiblio() that did not come back, and the Abstract Report > stopped running. > > Now the getBiblio() function is fairly complex. So I replaced it with a > three-line function whose first line was an “answer” alert to tell me that > the function was running. Under the IDE the “answer” alert came back, but in > the standalone, nothing! > > Oh, and one more thing. This was all under Livecode 9.0.1 and also 9.6.0. I > also tried compiling the standalone under LC 8.1.9 with the same result. > However, when I saved the stack in Livecode 7.0 format, and compiled the > standalone using Livecode 7.1.4, all of the “answer” alerts came back and the > Abstract Report worked fine! > > Any thoughts about this would be greatly appreciated! > > Regards, > > Bruce Pokras > _______________________________________________ > 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
