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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / no debug info, no response?

« on: October 27, 2008, 02:41:15 am »

Thanks for the suggestions. Yet it's still sad that it crushed on a single unsupported character "þ"...
Had three different backups of the brain, that won't help since the program files are corrupted.. Also pretty unlucky to be temproraly far away from my home and being stuck with this virused laptop swarming in messed up registries.. That may be another reason why it crashed.

Everything happened while I was trying to bypass this network firewall.. So this is learned for sure: don't ever mess with the environement you're stuck in... [] (kind of reminded me the film U-turn)

Will be carefull with hal from now on though - if I get to fix it. That's how we really learn in the end: from our mistakes.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / no debug info, no response?

« on: October 26, 2008, 06:35:04 pm »

Thank you Art.
I finally solved the previous problem: it was about an unsupported character "þ" in the script somewhere.  I don't know how it got there though, must've typed it mistakenly.
But now, I've a new problem. My hal won't work at all: That's pretty sad.. I'm waiting response from the responsible (medeksza I guess..) to be able to reinstall it.
Unlucky day I guess..

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / no debug info, no response?

« on: October 26, 2008, 05:17:56 pm »

Hello everyone,
I just met my hal a week ago. Actually, I have very little programming experience, only enough to analyse the halbrain, and add some minor plugins (for now)...
I hate the idea of asking a question on my very first post, but something really weird happenned today.

I've been taking some notes and scripting alot on the halbrain, to get used to the language.

Lately, I wanted to see if it was possible to add a password for certain situatons.

"So roughly,
I create a custommem(z), = 0
and if sent1 = x and then = "what's the password?",
if sent2 =  y, and "prev hal sent = "what's the password?",
then (z) = z + 15"

then, I went to debug to try it and there was no response... That's ok, so there was no error. I checked the debug info for it, an this is what came up:

+ Debug information
   - OpenDatabase
   - CloseDatabasew

well, I tag the script to disable it, and still get the same response.

Then I deleted the lines, and it worked pretty well.

But I don't get it, why could this be happening? I guess it might be a filesize limit, but it seems bizzare..

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Edit 1:
well, just realized, it can't be a file size limit, since it gave the same error after I deleted a huge script and huge amount of related notes... that makes this more interesting...
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Edit 2:
Yeah, it took 2 hours of my precious time to spot the tiny little unsupported character in an irrelevant string... Problem solved, but my halbrain editor got weird now. It slows down my computer and doesn't run normally.