Re: [oopic] more debugging

Brian Lloyd wrote:
> OK, I am starting to tear my hair out here. I have pretty simple logic
> but the behavior of my program doesn't seem to be following my logic.
> And, yes, I am assuming I am doing something wrong but I don't have
> enough background with the OOPic to know for sure.
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> It appears that I can create a data object, i.e. an oByte, set it to
> various values in my program, and look at how it changes at run-time
> to give me an idea of how my logic flow is working. (While this
> *seems* to be working, please correct me if I am wrong in this
> assumption.)
>
> Is there any reason that, insofar as program flow is concerned, data
> objects and variables, e.g. oByte and Byte, might behave differently
> in program structure, e.g. a switch statement? I have looked through
> the documentation but can't see any differentiation but some of my
> results suggest that this might be the case.
>
>
Yes, they can operate differently. If you have an oByte tied to a VC
then that value can change unpredictably while in the running VC. A
Byte variable will be what you set it to. An oByte will reflect
whatever the VC is doing at that moment, and a VC is running _many_
times faster than the script code. So, in effect you will get a
snapshot of the window of the VC operation that happens to be doing
something when the script code interprets it.

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