Stability issues (mouse focus?)

[dochawk]

I'm using the demo version of livecode 5.5 on Lion with 16G and a quad core i5.

Yesterday, about half a dozen times, livecode locked up, usually after a SQLite query--it would print the error code a couple of lines of code later, but the File menu would pull down and stay pulled., with no more response. I was unable to change the front livecode window, or anything else.

Other times, if I told livecode to quit, with my stack and two substacks open (likely with unsaved changes), and usually a code window open, I saw the same behavior.

In both cases, when I killed from Force Quit, save dialogs would pop up from all three, and close in a fraction of a second, as livecode shut itself down.

Today, I had a popup list (something grey, look in docs, cut, copy, paste) appear over a code window. The hiliting worked, but I couldn't select, or get anything else to happen in livecode. This survived a couple of transitions to other apps and back, before it finally went away and resumed normal operations.

I suspect that focus was caught in a popup or dialog behind another window in these cases.

Has anyone else seen such things?

[Mark]

Hi,

Yes, I see all these problems all the time. Usually, it is because I made a coding error, the debugger pops up to tell me where the error is, an error in the code of the script editor itself causes another error, which again causes the debugger to pop up, which causes an error, etc... This happens particularly when I make a mistake in a resizeStack handler, but it can also happen in other cases. It is a shame that after many years, this problem hasn't been fixed yet.

Kind regards,

Mark