--- Chris Stasny <staz@...> wrote: > At 9:47 AM +1000 6/14/01, Ashley Butterworth wrote: > >Hi All, > > I am having some problems with the program that > I am > >working on. When I am at home the program works > fine, > >as soon as I run it on the computers art school it > >crashes with a Bus Error (Type 1). When I step > through > >with the debugger at home the variables of the init > >function show up but when I debug it at school they > >don't, it says that there are no locals (which the > err > >var and pict handle are). Any Ideas?, I use a > PowerMac > >5500/225 at home and a G4 tower at school, I am > using > >Release 3. > > Since you are behind on the releases, it is > difficult to determine > where the hiccup lies. I can't even say if it is > your bug or ours. > Let me suggest that you narrow down the problem by > inserting beeps in > your program. Put in a beep. If your program beeps > then the bug is > somewhere farther along. If it doesn't beep, the bug > comes before the > beep. > > When you find out what is causing the problem, I can > offer more help. > > > > Best, > > -STAZ ~)~ > Staz, Problem solved , I ran through it with the dubugger at home and found that it is calling the initialization function twice, therby creating all the GWorlds the first time and then trying to recreate them again and running out of ram but the handles to the old ones get wiped over. The second problem was that the debugger wasn't updating itslef properly ie it was updating it's list of local variables properly. It happened once with the globals and I clicked and it refereshed. Without release 4 I couldn't tell you if it was still in there. Thanks, ===== Ashley ~)~ ============================================================= Ashley Butterworth Email: macbse@... ============================================================= _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!