[Cuis-dev] Morphic glitches out/hangs when adding faulty code to drawOn method on morphs that step

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi All,

I finally could reproduce and understand the problem. Fix is now at GitHub.

Thanks for reporting!

Cheers,

On 12/15/2022 9:50 AM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I guess I need more precise steps to reproduce.
>
> I just fired a fresh Cuis, from an updated repo. Just installed 
> updates and opened a Sample09Clock. It works ok. Then I open a browser 
> on it (from the halo), went to the drawOn: method and added your line 
> Alan. I get a debugger "Instances of SmallFloat64 are not indexable". 
> I close the debugger and see the clock displayed now as a red box with 
> yellow borders and cross. Image is responsive. I go to the browser and 
> correct the method. Then I do World / Debug / Start drawing all again. 
> The clock is correctly drawn again.
>
> In short, I see the expected behavior. This means I need enough 
> detail, so I can reproduce the problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> On 12/15/2022 6:28 AM, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> Thanks to report! I confirm the issue, even with non stepping morph. 
>> It should not behave like that.
>>
>> The expected behavior with faulty code in a #drawOn: method is a 
>> broken morph rendered as a red rectangle with yellow diagonals and 
>> stepping set in pause, to avoid recurring debugger to pop up I guess. 
>> By the way there is the WorldMenu>Debug  and Morph halo menus to 
>> restart stepping and rendering once the broken code is fixed.
>>
>> It seems the Morph is not detected as broken, and rendering is tried 
>> again and again.
>>
>> Juan recently introduced the HybridCanvas to speed up graphics 
>> rendering, may be it is related, and a fix should come. I can't help 
>> more, sorry.
>>
>> Hilaire
>>
>> Le 15/12/2022 à 07:43, Alan Dao via Cuis-dev a écrit :
>>> I know that the code I've put in is inherently flawed, but my 
>>> development process involves experimenting a lot and not always 
>>> knowing what I'm doing. Is there something I'm missing when it comes 
>>> to not having mistakes break Morphic? Any advice would be appreciated.
>>>
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