thinBasic Beta 1.9.7.0

**porcelain_tree** · 05-09-2013, 01:43

Thanks for the extra info.

I haven't gotten to the crash code yet. The crash happens much later than I expected, so I set a breakpoint at what seems to be the guilty function, which I call Play(). It handles init of a channel and starts playback. BUT ...

I'm dealing with another issue: the debug module is enforcing assignment of the error code to a variable in the INI_SETKEY command. That is, it throws an "expecting a =" error. I assume that means I have to reform those lines to

local succeed as dword
succeed = INI_SETKEY(blah blah blah)

Only debug in 1.9.7.0 enforces this. I know that it's good practice to check these sorts of actions, but I think this requirement is excessive.

But anyway, I'll fix it and eventually get to my crash condition.

**Michael Hartlef** · 05-09-2013, 08:49

John,

please stay on topic and and only that.

Michael

**porcelain_tree** · 06-09-2013, 03:00

John, no offense, but I don't understand any part of your comment.

My issues only appear in Beta 1.9.7.0, so naturally I thought this was the place to discuss them. But in any case, Rene told me enough to help me.

**ReneMiner** · 06-09-2013, 15:04

Originally Posted by porcelain_tree

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I'm dealing with another issue: the debug module is enforcing assignment of the error code to a variable in the INI_SETKEY command. That is, it throws an "expecting a =" error....
Only debug in 1.9.7.0 enforces this..

INI_SetKey takes an optional default-value-parameter - if this line in your code already has parenthesis around the parameters you might check the codeline directly above this - I can imagine there's another call to some function that takes an optional parameter so the line you want to change is not the one that causes the error- but the line above...

Where are my manners? Welcome and Happy Coding!

**Petr Schreiber** · 06-09-2013, 15:12

If the code is not private, you could upload it here and I could check the possible cause of error.

Petr

**porcelain_tree** · 18-02-2015, 01:24

Sorry guys, a lot has happened in my life and I forgot about this thread.

I finally found the cause. I was calling a function and assigning its value like this:

x = my_function

when the proper syntax is:

call my_function to x

After I changed my code, my program runs fine in all of the more recent versions of thinBasic. For some reason the older version accepted and used my original syntax without any errors.

Thanks for the help.

**ErosOlmi** · 18-02-2015, 07:53

x = my_function should be absolutely valid.

Can you please post a little bit more of your not working code?
Or create a little script reproducing the problem?

I need to see how my_function is declared.

Thanks a lot
Eros

**porcelain_tree** · 19-02-2015, 08:34

Ah, interesting. Man, I hope I didn't change hundreds of function calls for no good reason.

(My media player is over 12,000 lines of code.)

Okay, thanks, I'll find a section that I can use for a sample script and post it here. It might take a day or so.

**porcelain_tree** · 20-02-2015, 09:49

I apologize, Eros, I can't replicate the crashes. I'm completely baffled. I must have fixed the real problem without realizing it.

**porcelain_tree** · 21-02-2015, 01:37

To clarify, older versions of my program still crash in all of the betas. It's not something I imagined.

To try to replicate the crashes, I used a newer version and changed the function calls back to "x = my_function." It's this version that doesn't seem to crash on the function calls. I changed something to fix that issue, apparently.