[Gambas-user] small bug in ide

[neil lewis]

Hi Benoit,

The error was in the arguments to an EXEC statement.

The statement originally looked something like EXEC ["-mogrify", 
"-scale", 350, filename] and this worked fine.
It was changed to something like EXEC ["-mogrify", "-scale", 350x350, 
filename]
Obviously the 350x350 part should now be inside quotes, but when I first 
altered the line I didn't notice the error.
The interpreter diagnosed a missing square bracket instead of missing 
quotation marks, which meant it took a little longer than necessary to 
spot the real problem.
I guess the interpreter is seeing the 350x350 argument without quotes as 
being part of a separate statement, so it thinks the EXEC statement 
should have been finished.
It would be much more helpful if the interpreter could correctly 
diagnose that there was a syntax error in the EXEC statement.

Like I said, it's just a small usability bug, and not anything 
substantial but it would be nice if the interpreter could diagnose this 
sort of error more helpfully.
I originally noticed this behaviour on Gambas 0.99RC4, but have since 
found it on both the current stable and development versions, too.

By the way, I think Gambas is progressing really well. It's a very 
exciting project for very many reasons, not least that it lets people 
with limited programming experience build real world applications. Also, 
you must know how often VB has been used to prototype custom 
applications for Win and I'm sure Gambas will also have a part to play 
in this sort of role for Linux.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Neil Lewis.

Benoit Minisini wrote:

>On Friday 18 February 2005 22:31, neil lewis wrote:
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>>Yup. Same problem still exists in current 1.9.3 version.
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>>Neil Lewis.
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>Can you tell me what code raises an error, which error, and what error message 
>you want instead ?
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>Thanks in advance,
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