From the start i have been in the habit of inspecting variables with mouseover in the main coding screen. At some point I began using stringlists and a serious problem arose. The mouseover rarely revealed the dropdown display of their values. And a good portion of the time the mouseover would cause Phrogram to crash. Most recently i have begun to use classes. I find the mouseover of their objects does not work either but at least the program does not lock up. I am using the first Vista version. I know people are going to say it is stable, but wouldn't it be better to be able to say it is robust.

Does this happen when you use stringlist or when you try to inspect stringlit/class variables.

Can you write me a step by step approach of exaclty what you do to make it crash/fail.

For example I can inspect everything in this just fine:

 

Program MyNewProgram

 Method Main()

  Define a As Integer = 12
  Define b As String = "andy"
  Define c As StringList
  Define g As Test
  
  g.f.Add("one")
  g.f.Add("two")
  
  c.Add("jon")
  c.Add("walt")
  c.Add("david")
  
  //Breakpoint this line then use hover to examine a,b,c,g and contents
  Console.WriteLine(a)
 End Method
 
 Class Test
  
  Define d As Integer = 13
  Define e As String = "hello"
  Define f As StringList
  
 End Class

End Program

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Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this one. I think i originally posted around the time when version 2.5 was imminent. I was running version 2.2 at the time and felt it would be better to wait and see. I would hate you to have scrambled in the last days up till releasing 2.5 if you found it there as well. So i have finally installed 2.5. It works fine but the "hover bug" is still there. It has various levels of disaster. It can just not display the stringlist though it gives the count. This happens if the debug bullet is put to early in the program. It can not display the count or the list in which case it locks up. One has to close the program window to recover. Finally what happens when StringlistHoverCrash is only program window that was open. Phrogram will officially crash telling you with a dialog box that it must "quit".

To make the bug work is very subtle. Follow my comments exactly. If you have any question please feel free to ask. (Oh by the way it if the stringlist is in a class variable it crashes too.) I don't have directx installed so who knows maybe that is it.

 

Program StringListHoverCrash

  Method Main()
  Define cfuel As StringList
  Define ghover As Stringlist
  Define qqq As Integer
  Define blank As String
 
  cfuel.Add("jon")
  cfuel.Add("walt")
  cfuel.Add("david")
  cfuel.Add("albert")
  cfuel.Add("steven")
  cfuel.Add("william")

  blank = ""//DO NOT breakpoint this line as it will only cause the drop down to malfunction
  For qqq=1 To 6 //step through this loop a few times to prime the crash
   ghover.Clear()
   ghover.Add(cfuel.item(qqq))
   blank = ""//Breakpoint this line to cause the crash after stepping through the loop
  Next//While highlighted here examine ghover and oddly the little minus has no dropdown under it. //Enjoy!
  Console.WriteLine("done")
  End Method

End Program