Ken,

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU (no dashes)
for bringing this up before it bit me. It would have taken me FOREVER to find 
the problem! Your fix worked perfectly.

Add one notch for keeping a recent clone backup around in addition to Time 
Machine.

Jerry Jensen

On Feb 11, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> If you take advantage of downloading the DAZ3D software for Mac 64-bit 
> computers, you need to be aware of a "gotcha":
> 
> It turns out that after installing the 64-bit versions of DAZ3D on my Mac 
> that LiveCode can't open a script editor window anymore. This turned out to 
> be because it inserted two "bad" environment variables: 
> ($DAZSTUDIOVERSION_4-64 and $DAZSTUDIO_4-64) which LC would error out on when 
> trying to work with global variables. The "-" in these globals is what did it…
> 
> So if you've installed these and find yourself in a situation trying to open 
> a script window and seeing nothing but "revNewScriptEditor 1" in the Windows 
> menu, you'll need to either (a) wait until RunRev fixes it, (b) find another 
> copy of LC on another machine or install the MetaCard IDE and then edit the 
> revDebugger.rev file (in Contents/Tools/Toolset), go to the 
> "revDebuggerValidGlobalNames" function and change it to add:
> 
>    filter tGlobalsRaw without "*-*"
> 
> It should look like this:
> 
> function revDebuggerValidGlobalNames
>  local tGlobalsRaw
>  put the globals into tGlobalsRaw
> 
>  replace comma with return in tGlobalsRaw
> 
>  # For now we just filter out the Vista 64 bit ones. Really we should remove 
> anything that is not a valid Rev identifier
>  # according to lextable.cpp, but that can easily be added in later as this 
> is the only place in the IDE this is done.
>  filter tGlobalsRaw without "*(x86)"
>  filter tGlobalsRaw without "*/*"
>  filter tGlobalsRaw without "*-*"
> 
>  replace return with comma in tGlobalsRaw
> 
>  return tGlobalsRaw
> end revDebuggerValidGlobalNames
> 
> I'm sure RunRev will add this line in soon, but in the meantime it's a 
> "gotcha" you should be aware of…
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: k...@sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/        
> 
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