Ticket #377 (WorksForMe)Sun Feb 09 00:25:17 UTC 2014

ResTest crashes with "Date" object

Details by Rick Murray (539):

Steps to reproduce:

• Load !ResEd
• Click on iconbar icon (“Untitled1” window opens)
• Menu on Untitled1, select “Prototypes…”.
• Drag “Date” from Prototypes to Untitled1.
• Menu on Untitled1 -> File -> Save -> save it somewhere.

Then:

• Load !ResTest
• Drag saved file to ResTest iconbar icon.

“ResTest may have gone wrong [blah blah]”

Describe:
“Internal error: abort on data transfer at &FC409730”, postmortem is not so helpful:

9f24 in anonymous function
cee4 in anonymous function
d170 in anonymous function
9518 in anonymous function (function names are GOOD!)
9cd0 in anonymous function
Arg2: 0×00009b84 39812 -> [0xe1a0c00d 0xe92ddbf0 0xe24cb004 0xe24dcf81]
Arg1: 0×00010138 65848 -> [0×7365523c 0×74736554 0×72694424 0×52212e3e]
fc16cfd8 in shared library function
d464 in anonymous function

ResEd v0.53
ResTest v0.73
RISC OS home-built, v5.21 based upon sources of 2014/01/03.
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Side note – in the Date object properties, most of the icons have no effect. If I change “Integer” to be “1” instead of “0”, RedTest will now load the file, but trying to create the Date object will fail with “SWI &100340 not known”. This number is the class number of the Date object.

There does not appear to be a Date module in the Toolbox collection, nor is such a thing unplugged, nor does such a thing appear to be present in the sources – https://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/view/castle/R…
Nor, having just looked, is there any mention of it in the Toolbox PDF.
Looking within ResEd, it looks like it is handled by !Misc as an “unknown” object; and is apparently defined in Config as 0x100340,Date,obj_date.

Therefore, should this “Date” object not be present?