Cancel running/testing?

[doomtoo]

Any way to cancel the flash application if it gets stuck in an infinite loop? I keep having to close the program because it's getting stuck somewhere, either infinite loop or something redundant, but taking forever to track it down...

[smeared]

you gotta figure it out.. post it here, we'll help.

[doomtoo]

If flash freezes up, it doesn't post stuff to the trace box!?

The problem is, (which may not be too helpful) I can move/scroll my world fine. I can click on guys and "kill" them fine. But some combination of moving and killing causes it to freeze-

I can get it repeatable... I put trace statements before and after blocks of code to find out where it freezes, but like I said above, I think it freezes before flash outputs all the traces....

I click on a guy to kill him- as soon as I click (after moving/killing other guys) it freezes. I added traces to only show when a click has happened.

It seems to get through every function, and finish the "onEnterFrame", but freeze before starting the next one.

I basically have a main loop for my game:


private function onEnterFrame(event:Event):void
{
if(mouse_down)
trace("in on enter frame, about to update map");
Map1.Update(pointer);

if(mouse_down)
trace("done updating map, going to update entities");

for(var i=0;i<entities.length;i++)
{
entities[i].UpdatePosition(Map1);

if(entities[i].state1==entities[i].STATE_DEAD)
{
trace("an entity is dead");

//items.push(item_handler.GetItem(new Intpoint(entities[i].worldPos.x, entities[i].worldPos.y)));

Map1.tiles[Map1.numX*entities[i].worldPos.y+entities[i].worldPos.x].walkable=true;
Map1.tiles[Map1.numX*entities[i].worldPos.y+entities[i].worldPos.x].interactive=false;
Map1.tiles[Map1.numX*entities[i].worldPos.y+entities[i].worldPos.x].object_on_tile=null;
entities.splice(i,1);
}
//entity might be gone by now
else if(Map1.dest.x==entities[i].worldPos.x&&Map1.dest.y==entities[i].worldPos.y&&hero.state1==hero.STATE_IDLE)
{
hero.state1=hero.STATE_ATTACK;
hero.target=entities[i];
trace("attacking entity= "+i);
hero.timer=getTimer();
hero.target=entities[i];
hero.target.TakeDamage(hero.damage);
}
}
if(mouse_down)
trace("done updating entities, going to update hero");

hero.Update(Map1);
if(mouse_down)
trace("done updating hero, going to scroll screen")

if(mouse_up)
{
hero.state1=hero.STATE_MOVING;

//also have to check if mouse click was on enemy unit, and move beside enemy instead of on top of- and check path for enemy
if (this.mouseY<430) {
Map1.ScrollScreen();
}
trace("hero is moving");

}
if(mouse_down)
trace("done scrolling screen");

mouse_up=false;
if(mouse_down)
trace("done setting mouse_up to false");

}


I see the last trace, then flash is frozen... It must not be outputting the traces when they actually occur since this only freezes on a bad guy (so it must be going through the OnEnterFrame again, just not outputting any traces because it freezes)

[doomtoo]

This is as2, but the concepts apply: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/trigonometry.htm

google "actionscript trigonometry"

Eh, wrong thread? I'm fine with trig :D

[creatify]

Eh, wrong thread? I'm fine with trig :D


Haha - yep, whoops!

[doomtoo]

I think I found the error- a for loop that had an extra condition that wasnt being met.

But is there any "real" method of debugging aside from using the trace statement? In C++/console you can output before something actually happens- in flash, it appears to output only after successfully finishing a frame.

My for loop was after like 10 trace output statements which where never shown, since frash wouldn't output them if it got stuck in a loop further along in the frame!

Any way around that aside from just making sure you never have a continuous loop?