REPEAT bug. Finally fixed?

[Al Staffieri]

It's been a long time, but I finally know for sure why the repeat bug is happening. If I'm lucky (and if I'm right) then I should FINALLY have a fix for the bug which sometimes wouldn't let you use multiple REPEAT loops in a script.

[Silverwind]

Yay! Nice goin' Al.

[Gnome]

TD is going to freak out.

[Silverwind]

I hope he does so in the form of a song... *glances hopefully in the distance for the arrival of TD*

[Al Staffieri]

Still not fully working, but I'm getting closer. It doesn't give any errors, but it's not repeating the loops the correct amount of times.

[Silverwind]

I noticed something like that awhile back but forgot to report it. A REPEAT loop nestled within a few IF THEN's and a KEYDOWN block would only execute twice, regardless to the howManyTimes parameter.

I still have the GM file if it's any use to you: http://www.mediafire.com/?emkzztttzmn

The code with the problem is in card 11's card script, and the line is 105.

EDIT:

I don't think I tested negative values.

[Tireas Dragon]

Is it True? is it Finally fixed? HORRAH!!!! hmm now if only I could figure out what kind of song to sing on a such a grand occasion. Hmmmm none comes to mind at the time but if one does come to mind I will be sure to post it immediately.

[Al Staffieri]

I think I may have really got it now. I just sent a test version to TD and silver. We'll see if that does it.

[Silverwind]

No glitches to report so far, just unusual behavior involving the REPEAT command with a negative value. It prompts the "Nested Repeats not allowed!" dialogue.

Oh yeah, I assume that nested repeats were intentionally disabled?

[Tireas Dragon]

I don't use repeats with a negative value anyway. So I don't care about that.

[Al Staffieri]

No glitches to report so far, just unusual behavior involving the REPEAT command with a negative value. It prompts the "Nested Repeats not allowed!" dialogue.

You shouldn't be using a negative value anyway since you can't repeat less than once. I'll try to fix that. It's supposed to run through the code at least once even if you put 0 or a negative.

Oh yeah, I assume that nested repeats were intentionally disabled?

Yes. I'm having a hard enough time getting non nested ones to work!

[Silverwind]

Yes. I'm having a hard enough time getting non nested ones to work!

Hehe. We can get by using a "subroutine" variable instead.

You shouldn't be using a negative value anyway since you can't repeat less than once. I'll try to fix that. It's supposed to run through the code at least once even if you put 0 or a negative.

Yeah, there's no sane cause for negative repeats, I was just surprised at the unexpected behavior when I attempted it. As for why I attempted it, I'm determined to hunt down any last possibly remaining glitches in the 3.9 series, thus I'm writing all sorts of inconceivable code.

You don't even wanna know what happens when you trigger an ON KEYDOWN block within an ON KEYDOWN block and use ON TIMER to deduce the result...

- Silver the cackling with insane laughter.

[Silverwind]

Oh, hey Al, just wondering but, is there any chance of an X-Y positioner or offsetter for WINDOW commands in the 3.9 series? It would be cool to display text in a separate window, as it would be like multiple text fields.