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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : CMM2 Editor losing chunks of code
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| Marc1970 Newbie  Joined: 26/11/2020 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7 |
I find the CMM2 to be doing some strange things. I have one of the pre assembled ones, in a beige case. Firstly it keeps deleting chunks of my code, from the end of listings - For instance I'm running stuff and testing it and suddenly I have whole subs and functions missing.... very annoying. What is strange is that the code all still runs, it's just not shown in the editor - I'm editing directly on the CMM2. Then if I restart the CMM2, the missing code is gone forever and I need to go from a backup. When it's in that state, running code I can't see - all kinds of weird stuff happens.... FOR / NEXT loops only count up a few steps and then stop.. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, or perhaps the editor is buggy. |
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twofingers Guru  Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1593 |
Hi Marc, this is a known bug. (s. also here ) Which firmware? Newer version create an auto-backup. Michael Edited 2020-12-11 21:29 by twofingers causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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| Marc1970 Newbie Joined: 26/11/2020 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7 |
Many thanks for the reply. I'm on 5.05.05b8 Will try a newer version. Marc. |
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| twofingers Guru Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1593 |
Tip (without warranty!): In the meantime, as a workaround and to protect my code, I add some Rem lines (>2x256 bytes) to the end of my code: '1**************************************************************************************************** '2**************************************************************************************************** '3**************************************************************************************************** '4**************************************************************************************************** '5**************************************************************************************************** '6**************************************************************************************************** ... kind of vodoo!  causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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| Marc1970 Newbie Joined: 26/11/2020 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7 |
Many thanks - nice :) |
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| twofingers Guru Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1593 |
Here is my Repair.bas if someone want to try: repair.zip Regards Michael causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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NPHighview Senior Member  Joined: 02/09/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 203 |
I've encountered this too, particularly when copying/pasting or cutting/pasting from one location in a program to another. These are typically long lines, greater than 80 chars, but nowhere approaching the magic 240 char limit. I'm now doing my program editing on a separate machine, and only doing debug editing on the CMM2. When the editor poops out, so far, I've been able to remember the few changes I've made while debugging, and reconstruct them elsewhere. Irritating, somewhat diminishes my enthusiasm for this wonderful ecosystem, but not a total showstopper. - Steve Live in the Future. It's Just Starting Now! |
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| twofingers Guru Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1593 |
I would be interested to know if anyone has ever encountered the same problem while using epsilon Xedit editor. Michael causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10310 |
What versions are you running and seeing code loss? I'm not aware of any reperts that it is still happening in the Version 5.06.00 release candidates |
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thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4311 |
I agree with @matherp, I used to see this at least a couple of times a week, but it hasn't happened to me in the last month or so and I'm still hammering it quite hard - I'm rarely more than 2 days behind on firmware builds. I do still see an occasional hang, but not with any loss of work. Best wishes, Tom MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| twofingers Guru Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1593 |
Hi Peter, I'm on v5.06.00b2 now. I was not aware that you fixed that issue - did you? You are right I had no issues in the last weeks but I did not do so much with the CMM2. I was wondering if it would make sense to introduce an optional verify. Michael causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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jirsoft Guru Joined: 18/09/2020 Location: Czech RepublicPosts: 533 |
I don't have also any issues on last (few) FW versions and I'm working only in EDIT. Just few small things like replace on end of the screen (you have longer line than screen and find/replace it somewhere on screen) but never again lost of the code... Jiri Napoleon Commander and SimplEd for CMM2 (GitHub), CMM2.fun |
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epsilon Senior Member Joined: 30/07/2020 Location: BelgiumPosts: 255 |
I found and fixed a bug yesterday that is completely unrelated but at first glance looks a bit similar: Pressing enter twice on last line in window triggered an incorrect page redraw action so it would look as if the line disappeared. This is a bug in the page display. It's fixed in XEdit V0.6. Epsilon CMM2 projects |
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| twofingers Guru Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1593 |
Thanks Ruben, but I'm almost sure that this xedit issue is not related to the losing chunks of code issue. Anyway, I am excited about the good job you did in creating Xedit.  Regards Michael causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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| epsilon Senior Member Joined: 30/07/2020 Location: BelgiumPosts: 255 |
Thanks Michael. It isn't related, but I can imagine when people are trying out XEdit V0.5 and they see that last line disappear, they would say 'Oh no, Not Again!'  . It was just a typo in my page scrolling logic. The bug is fixed in the V0.6 XEdit release I posted today. Epsilon CMM2 projects |
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| twofingers Guru Joined: 02/06/2014 Location: GermanyPosts: 1593 |
I understand!  causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence |
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