For the first time I have created something that crashes filemaker.

Basically a textfield, a web view object (with the objectname "web")and one
script

1st I put some html text inside the textfield

"data:text/html,<img src=\"" &
Middle ( Get ( FilePath ) ; 7 ; ( Length( Get ( FilePath ) ) -7 ) - ( Length
( Get ( FileName ) )+4 ) )
&
"/foto/" & PADnum ( GetAsNumber ( Persoon::Persoonsblad ) ) & " geb.jpg\"
\">"

2nd then the script: Set Web Viewer [Object Name; "Web";
URL:Evaluate(textfield)

This worked perfectly. Untill I started tweaking with the text. Applied the
script to try. The application crashed. completely. Filemaker could not even
be stopped, nothing reacted. I had to force filemaker to shutdown. Ofcourse
I tried to reopen the file, it recovered, which was to be expected. But the
opening proces didn't finish as expected. Filemaker went blank, file didn't
open. No warning, nothing.
rebuild the file (luckily it was a testfile) introduced the typo. Bingo.
Perfectly reproducible. Astounded.

Hou je goed / keep well,

Ursus

On 12/05/11 5:23 AM, Ursus wrote:



just a guess; I would suspect the script evaluation has failed because
the path (in text field) is invalid. I would look at testing that the
path exists before having the script evaluate teh text field.


I had a series of FM apparent hangs a couple of months ago, where I was
using shell command steps to parse specific directory contents , on a
Mac (bash) form FM, and sometimes in the workup get something wrong that
sent the script parsing the entire volume contents, or a higher level
directory content, or invalid path... FM would appear to hang (beach
ball, 'not responding' under force quit) and activity monitor showing an
escaped process using over 100% of the CPU. Waiting often resulted in an
eventual unfreeze.

I would try a simple test, run it with a working path, then change the
target file name, or a directory name in the tree path, and see if the
invalid path produces the symptom.