Re: Enhanced IDE
- Posted by Mike777 <anon4321 at gmai?.c?m> Jan 22, 2008
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Dan Moyer wrote: > > Mike777 wrote: > > > > This is primarily intended for Judith, but if anybody else has any input, > > that > > would be fine with me. > > > > I seem to have run into a repeatable circumstance where code is obliterated. > > I'm not sure I can create a small repeatable example, but here is the code > > that will do it at my end. Take a normal text box and look at the onKeyUp > > event. > > Code it with: > > > > w32VOID=message_box(sprintf("The value of the key > > is:[%14.6f]",params[1]),"",0) > > > > Then run the program and input something which will cause a crash. On my > > system, > > that is just typing C twice. > > > > When you go back and look at the onKeyUp event in the IDE, it will be gone. > > > > I mention this not because I'm losing one line of test code. I mention this > > because after a crash, the routine that was in the process of executing is > > sometimes > > obliterated. It happened to me a couple of times with a Window/[General] > > code > > block [a BIG one]. When that happened, I was not very happy. But since I > > couldn't reliably replicate it and it happened so infrequently, I just > > implemented > > a "save the project file frequently" habit and went about my way. > > > > Now that I can reliably reproduce a code obliteration, I thought the least I > > could do is to mention it here so that if somebody wants to spend the time > > to > > track down the bug, they can and maybe more importantly, to encourage > > backing > > up the prj file "just in case." > > > > Mike > > Mike, > > Really not sure if this is relevant, but maybe *how* you run the program from > within the IDE might relate to the problem? F6 (temporary run) vs F5 (run) > ? > > Dan Moyer Dan, thanks for the reply. I almost always run from F5. Is that your preferred method? In any event, when I get a moment, I'll try reproducing the issue and then substituting F6 to see if it presents a different result. Mike