Mac to Windows

[Michael Correll]

I'll have to admit to being in pretty much the same idiot fraternity  
as Craig. Just a different chapter.  Got the idiot decoder ring to  
prove it.

However, I *never*  ran into the problem that Craig mentioned with  
commented out code or notes causing things to hang.  I found another  
bit of inexplicable weirdness -- when a file was transfered from Mac  
to PC, I'd often get a hang or crash on initialize.  When I opened  
the file  via the View Wiz and simply inserted a CR or two into the  
initialize proc and then save, I could close the file and then it  
would open as it should.  The same scenario occurred with other  
procedures within the same file.  Insert a CR, save, and it would  
operate smoothly.

Other weirdness:  Often I would find a what appeared to be a CR at  
the very end of some procedures ( including the initialize .)    As I  
recall, it appeared to be a little square box [ Chr(10) ] at the very  
end of the proc.   Never could figure out the how or why of that  
one.  I'd just remove it, close, then reopen normally.   Keyboard  
error??  Keyboard-ing error???   It's a mystery....

But my observation about  Pan Mac being slightly more forgiving of  
sloppy coding stands.  Sorry I can't support that with any concrete  
examples.  I'd have to take the time to dig back through old versions  
and reconstruct things a bit.   I do think though it's a good idea to  
do some tweaking, refinement, and experimentation under Win -- and  
then transfer back to Mac to proof and double check things.  And of  
course, much depends on the complexity of the project and the skill/ 
experience level of the person doing it.   And everyone's results may  
vary a bit.   In my case, I had a rather complex (for me) initialize  
proc with a ton of variables to initialize, secret windows, screen  
resolution to measure, an import, and a far call or two.  Upon  
reflection, that fact and my not really knowing what I was doing when  
I started may have been a contributing factor to the above symptoms.

But I think all of this is going to be water under the bridge soon.  
Don't look back.  It'll be a different game when Pan 5 Win is released.

MC.




On Apr 3, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> At 10:42 AM -0700, 4/2/08, Craig McPherson wrote:
>
>> Plus things which remain completely mysterious to me, for example a
>> procedure which works fine on the Mac side but breaks with an
>> 'operator expected but not found' error message is often solved by
>> removing commented out code such as
>> //message  "found "+str(info("selected"))
>
> Curious to know, Have you had similar errors when using the ';'
> comment notation or the /*  */   ?
> --