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[mervjoyce]

Eric,

Certainly many thanks for your time and comments ... I still don't quite believe what I am seeing, but feel a little more convinced when you have similar results.

In fact, I have commented out that initialisation block, recompiled and the program runs perfectly as it has always in the past.

That may solve my "program problem", but as a "beta" tester it's a long way from a satisfactory result - I thinks there is a problem laying in wait for us here .... anyway I'll keep snooping (and have a glass of red) .... be interested in any comments from Kornalius later in the day.

Thanks again .....

CUL

[PointOfLight]

[kornalius]

[PointOfLight]

Look at that, mervjoyce. Now he's fixing our bugs before we find them

[kornalius]

Isn't it cool?

I fixed this problem while investigating a bug bmanske found in the VFB that was locking up his device. And your problem was pretty much the same thing that caused it to get in a loop internally.

Btw, newer build is available!

[PointOfLight]

Okay, the code I posted no longer blows up, but how do I get the value of the string variable out of the structure? If I use:

s$ = s$ + MapList.name$

I get a string that contains a bunch of addresses, which I would expect. However, if I do:

s$ = s$ + ^MapList.name$

I get an access violation. What's wrong?

[PointOfLight]

I figured out my problem (because I actually remembered for once going through this before). The actual syntax should be:

s$ = s$ + (^MapList.name$);

I forgot that I needed the parentheses.

[kornalius]

[kornalius]

[PointOfLight]

[kornalius]

The reason why it doesn't work is because the ^ operator grabs the expression that comes after.

so s$ = s$ + ^MapList.name$ + "\n"; was evaluated like this:

s$ MapList.name$ "\n" + ^ Therefore the pointer location was a bad one. I could change the parser to just grab the variable that comes after the ^ operator but you couldn't do things like this in the future.

s$ = s$ + ^MapList.name$+3; This would return the fourth caracter after MapList.name$ string value.

[PointOfLight]

No need to change anything, I just like to know why things work the way they do

[mervjoyce]

[mervjoyce]

[kornalius]