[Gambas-user] Program not starting

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 12/12/2020 à 16:16, Tony Morehen a écrit :
> Just a warning, hopefully a helpful one.
> 
> Since commit d4a0982a, one of my programs refused to start. The startup 
> form would begin, run some initialization code, then exit with error 
> code 1.  There were no error messages, nothing to indicate what the 
> problem was.  Stepping through the program was not helpful.  All it 
> showed was that the exit occurred between one sub-routine and the next.
> 
> Several days of debugging my program and recompiling Gambas to identify 
> the exact change followed.  I finally started to recreate the startup 
> form.  The new form ran!  Looking at the differences between the two 
> forms revealed my error and it certainly was _*my*_  error.  The visible 
> property of the original form was set to false!
> 
> How that happened I have no idea.  Most likely I was trying to change 
> the visibility of a control on the form, but selected the form by mistake.
> 
> Cheers
> 

Do you read the commit logs?

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Benoît Minisini