[JW Lua] Finale crash when argument is nil
Thomas Weber
thomas.weber at notengrafik.com
Tue Sep 8 21:44:56 CEST 2015
Am 08.09.2015 um 20:03 schrieb Charles O. Lawrence:
> I
> think a run-time error is all that can be expected. JW Lua should perhaps
> be able to catch the error and terminate the script gracefully as opposed to
> crashing Finale.
Exactly. That's why I reported this. In this example, the argument was intentionally misspelled to show why such a situation might occur in "real life". There are other potential reasons, e.g. an attempt at retrieving an entry from a table at a non existing key.
>
> BTW: With the argument spelled correctly, it runs but does nothing that I
> can see.
>
It's just meant to be a reduced test case with the sole purpose of demonstrating the problem.
Best wishes
Thomas Weber
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