Re: XForms: Am I hallucinating? Very strange fdesign bug.

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 30 Jul 97 06:06:29 PDT

To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> An interesting consequence of a typo. When the second
> object is cut, the tabfolder received an FL_FREEMEM
> event, instead of freeing the memory, it draws
> the tabfolder (can anyone guess what the typo is). The window the
> tabfolder appears in is somewhat random.

Sounds to me as if the

break;

was left off a case in a switch statement.

I love those -- they are responsible for enormous hair tearing.
Almost as good as inadvertently altering the value of a constant in a
FORTRAN program (anyone want to guess how to do *that* one?). Yes, I
do admit to having programmed, at one time in my insanely checkered
career, in FORTRAN.

spl

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