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I have sixteen variables in my hold, and the sixteenth in the list turns into (i forget how to write it) two rectangles. see pic:

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If I change it back to what it was before, whenever I leave and go to the menu and back, it changes back to the rectangles. The first time it happened, I deleted the variable, and once I realized what it was, I had to manualy change everything back again. :~( I need help!

EDIT: This also (i think) caused my computer to freeze, and I just had to restart.

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When I re-opened DROD, the rectangles were gone, along with that variable. A blank space at the top appeared. See Pic.

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Now THAT is odd... I'm currently using 34 different variables, and I've never had any problems with them. Are you sure you are correctly following the variable-naming rules? (ie- must begin with a letter, must only contain {a-z, A-Z, _})

I'm running TCB on WinXP MCE... You?

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Casebier wrote:
Now THAT is odd... I'm currently using 34 different variables, and I've never had any problems with them. Are you sure you are correctly following the variable-naming rules? (ie- must begin with a letter, must only contain {a-z, A-Z, _})

I'm running TCB on WinXP MCE... You?
You can have numbers, too.
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Casebier wrote:
Now THAT is odd... I'm currently using 34 different variables, and I've never had any problems with them. Are you sure you are correctly following the variable-naming rules? (ie- must begin with a letter, must only contain {a-z, A-Z, _})

I'm running TCB on WinXP MCE... You?

Macbook V 10.4.8

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I looked at my drod.err and found this:

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Might that be the problem? If so, how do I find which character?

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What an ironic way for DROD to say something about an infinite loop ;).

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Jason wrote:
I looked at my drod.err and found this:

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Might that be the problem? If so, how do I find which character?
Yes, it's a problem. Odds are you forgot a Wait 0 somewhere - DROD only complains if it executes more commands then it has in one turn.
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Jason wrote:
If I change it back to what it was before, whenever I leave and go to the menu and back, it changes back to the rectangles.
What is the name you're trying to give this variable?

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I was trying "weapon". But I also tried "pon" for the same effect. I'll go recheck stuff to see if I have missed a Wait 0 or something like that.

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I tested some more, and found that if the variable is one letter long, it only makes one rectangle. Also, it only changes from my name to a rectangle when I go out of the room editor and into the level editor, so it might be something to do with saving levels.

EDIT: This bug is very hard to explain. Maybe I should email the hold to you?

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Jason wrote:
I tested some more, and found that if the variable is one letter long, it only makes one rectangle. Also, it only changes from my name to a rectangle when I go out of the room editor and into the level editor, so it might be something to do with saving levels.

EDIT: This bug is very hard to explain. Maybe I should email the hold to you?
I got your hold and did find a bug in the code -- it's possible to rename an existing variable (by double-clicking) to an invalid name. Maybe that's how that name got corrupted in the first place, and I think whatever happened shouldn't happen any more.

But besides that, I tried renaming the variable with no name to "weapon" and it worked just fine. Leaving the editor or DROD and coming back in still has the name I gave it. So I'm not sure what issues you're having there.

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04-16-2007 at 08:36 PM
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