Bug report: PLATFORMINFO$ (DEBUGGER BUG?)

[MCP]

Hi folks,

I'm new to GLBasic and these forums so I'm sad to report that PLATFORMINFO$ doesn't seem to work as implied in the documentation and will only return empty strings regardless of whatever parameter I pass to it. I have the latest GLBasic version of 10.283 and I have GLBasic installed on Win7 (32bit).

Here's my code snippet for you to look at just in case it's me that's doing something wrong...

Code: (glbasic) [Select]

// --------------------------------- //
// Project: TestApp
// Start: Tuesday, January 01, 2013
// IDE Version: 10.283
GLOBAL gPlatform$
GLOBAL gSavePath$
GLOBAL gDocsPath$
GLOBAL gTempPath$
gPlatform$=PLATFORMINFO$("")
gSavePath$=PLATFORMINFO$("APPDATA")
gDocsPath$=PLATFORMINFO$("DOCUMENTS")
gTempPath$=PLATFORMINFO$("TEMP")

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

[Ian Price]

Eh? Sorry I've just got home after a Night shift and have been up for over 24 hours now, so my brain might be a bit muddled.

Code: (glbasic) [Select]

GLOBAL gPlatform$
GLOBAL gSavePath$
GLOBAL gDocsPath$
GLOBAL gTempPath$
gPlatform$=PLATFORMINFO$("")
gSavePath$=PLATFORMINFO$("APPDATA")
gDocsPath$=PLATFORMINFO$("DOCUMENTS")
gTempPath$=PLATFORMINFO$("TEMP")

PRINT gSavePath$,10,10
PRINT gDocsPath$,10,20
        PRINT gTempPath$,10,30

SHOWSCREEN

KEYWAIT

They all perform exactly as I would expect. You don't pass strings TO them, you get strings FROM them to use to do various things.

What exactly are you trying to achieve?

[MCP]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for your reply. I've tested your code snippet and it works fine for me too.
Previously I'd set a breakpoint pretty much where your PRINT statement would be and the debugger falsely reports the strings returned as empty. I think the bug report still stands although it seems to be a debugging issue.

Thanks for your help.

[hardyx]

If you don't use a variable, the compiler (GCC) can optimize the code and eliminate the variable calculation.

[MrTAToad]

Yes, it does seem that the debugger is displaying empty text (when it shouldn't) :



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[Ian Price]

I've edited the title, as it does indeed appear to be an issue with the debugger alone and not a general bug which the original post appeared to indicate.

[MrTAToad]

Yes, its rather an odd problem...

[hardyx]

Yes, it does seem that the debugger is displaying empty text (when it shouldn't) :

In my GLB version 10.283 works ok the debugger. ¿Do you use the v11?

[MrTAToad]

Yes, forgot to mention that...  Must be a newly acquired bug

[MCP]

Yes, forgot to mention that...  Must be a newly acquired bug

The bug is present in version 10.283.

[MrTAToad]

Indeed it is!