I will say though, that at times I have had syntax errors which compile fine but produce some kind of runtime error, and when the offending command is reached, the engine silently exits the handler and stepping terminates. I see this in the debugger because when I step through the code, it hits that line then bails out. Whenever you hit a line of code that seems to jump out of the step debugger, examine that line of code VEWY CAWEFUWWY.
Bob On Feb 27, 2014, at 14:08 , Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: > >> The first line of the function has a breakpoint in it, but as soon as >> execution moves to the function, none of the breakpoints within it apply. >> >> As stated there is a syntax/logic error in the function. As Peter said put > a hard breakpoint as line 1 of the function, then comment out every other > line. You will now be able to step into the function - which proves there > is a problem within it*. Then systematically uncomment 50% of the commented > code. You should be able to quickly locate where the offending line is once > you are able to actually step into your function. > > * On very rare occasions, I'm pretty sure associated with copying and > pasting code from online, I've had functions or scripts that don't behave > as they should. In this case I've cut the function/handler, or in extreme > cases the entire script out and pasted it into a text editor - > TextWrangleran excellent free one for Mac. I 'Apply' and Saved the > stack with the > offending piece missing. I then use BBEdit's (TextWranglers big brother) > Zap Gremlins function to remove all non ASCII, ASCII control and ASCII null > values. I then reinsert the code which is now plain vanilla text, 'Apply' > then save and things return to normal. > _______________________________________________ > 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
