OpenEuphoria

Re: Enhanced IDE

• Posted by Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at pro?igy.n?t> Jan 22, 2008
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Mike777 wrote:
> 
> 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

I haven't tried your example, but yes, I do usually use F5 myself, and if the
choice were the problem, I'd have thought F6 would have been it, so I don't
expect you'll find F6 to be a solution.  Worth a try, though.

Dan