| It_took_my_meds |
| (Hey THIS is FUN) |
| 2007-12-18 11:35 PM |
Invalid UDF call line error bug
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Dear Ruud et. al.,
I've found a line error bug relating to invalid UDF calls. Please check out the following code:
Code:
? "Line 1" ? "Line 2" Test Function Test($x) $Test=$x EndFunction
Which returns:
Code:
Line 1
Line 2
ERROR : invalid method/function call: missing '('!
Script: C:\Temp\test.kix
Line : 10There are only 9 lines of code in the above script. I assume that KiX is scanning the entire script for a function with the same name and signature. When it gets to the end, it returns the number of lines of the script + 1 as the error line rather than where the error occured.
Regards,
Richard
| Witto |
| (MM club member) |
| 2007-12-19 11:13 PM |
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Re: Invalid UDF call line error bug
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Is this an error? V4.53, 4.52, 4.50 give the same messages.
| It_took_my_meds |
| (Hey THIS is FUN) |
| 2007-12-19 11:22 PM |
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Re: Invalid UDF call line error bug
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Just because older versions also exhibit the same behaviour doesn't preclude it from being an error.
It just means that no one has found and reported it before.
| Les |
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| 2007-12-20 02:07 AM |
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Re: Invalid UDF call line error bug
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Are you the QA dept looking for obscure minor things to complain about?
| It_took_my_meds |
| (Hey THIS is FUN) |
| 2007-12-20 02:11 AM |
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Re: Invalid UDF call line error bug
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Hardly. I don't think reporting a bug is complaining at all. I don't care too much if this gets fixed, however I certainly hate any bugs in my code and as a courtesy to Ruud, I'm letting him know about. It is up to him if he wants to do something about it.
| Björn |
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| 2007-12-21 02:30 PM |
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Re: Invalid UDF call line error bug
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Les - A bug doesn't really have a size - and if it has - it's small, right?
If it's big you usually call it beta or release candidate, no?
Meds - Agree, it catches the missing (), but throws you of at line that is a bug in my opinion.
Lonkero
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| 2007-12-21 10:02 PM |
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Re: Invalid UDF call line error bug
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hmm...
this has actually been reported earlier and ruud even answered something but yeah, it never got fixed.
the error messages have had issues as far as I can remember. The issues have changed a lot during the years, but they have never been totally accurate.
also, one might consider the depth of the information of the error being way too shallow.
say, someone writes a line with some 20 function calls from which half of them are nested. How he may know from the error where the problem lies?
| Björn |
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| 2007-12-22 02:36 AM |
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Re: Invalid UDF call line error bug
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How about doing it the same way a regular error shows - say, if you set the option that you have to declare variables - it halts on the first error period ? Using the same logic here seems to me to be the easiest way, or? Perhaps that doesn't touch that kind of nested code?
| Les |
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| 2007-12-22 03:47 AM |
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Re: Invalid UDF call line error bug
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Originally Posted By: Björn
Les - A bug doesn't really have a size - and if it has - it's small, right?
I tend to get a little defensive when people start crying "BUG" for every little "feature".
| Björn |
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| 2007-12-22 04:29 AM |
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Re: Invalid UDF call line error bug
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Originally Posted By: Les
Actually, I would not call it a bug. IMHO a bug causes good code to go bad. A properly written script would never manifest this issue.
Well - The code for getting the proper line goes bad in my opinion. Feature is what I would call it if it was left there with intent - perhaps it was.
Yes, I get you Les - no worries, you know I'll ask if I don't
| It_took_my_meds |
| (Hey THIS is FUN) |
| 2007-12-23 07:00 AM |
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Re: Invalid UDF call line error bug
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Your confusing issues here. It is a bug in the KiXtart run-time, it just takes a script bug to show it. It is of course a minor bug, and if I was Ruud, I wouldn't necessarily bother to fix it if it wasn't easy to do so.
I would much rather he used his precious time to add things like: .NET support; COM events; multi-threading; references; nested error handling; inbuilt associative arrays; etc...
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Lonkero
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| (KiX Master Guru) |
| 2007-12-24 02:30 AM |
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Re: Invalid UDF call line error bug
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nice list of feats dude. maybe not in the perfect order.
but threads, com events and refs would be way cool.
anyhow... this minor thing is a annoying one and it increases the learning curve of a fresh scripter and that's bad.
Giving misleading information where the actual error is can sometimes be really exhausting.