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[DukeOfMarshall]

Certain other languages such as JavaScript and PHP have a syntax called "try". Specifically JavaScript has a "try" and "catch" functionality. Implementing such really helps to catch errors without the entire app crashing.

Does Roku's BrightScript have such a "try" functionality?

Thanks.

[Komag]

Not that I'm aware of. But I've gotten used to checking for invalid, such as
IF test.value <> invalid THEN test.value = test.value + 1

or

IF test.value = invalid THEN STOP
(which effectively crashes the program, but in a controlled way 😄 )

[TheEndless]

Nope. There's no error handling in BrightScript, so you're best to do as Komag suggests and make sure you do validity checks anywhere you might run into an issue.

If there's absolutely no way you can predict the error, then you could use Eval() to execute the code as a string, which will return a success code, but you should avoid this whenever possible, as it inherently leaks memory.

[DukeOfMarshall]

Thanks for the information gentlemen. Here is the setup that I have.

I have created an app that verifies access and then builds and displays a grid. All of this is working just as planned up until this point. In fact, even several of the videos play and work correctly just as they should. However, the issue that I am running into is when I try to play anything other than the auto selected item for each row, I get the following error:

Array operation attempted on variable not DIM'd. (runtime error &he7) in ...AArwSoW9/pkg:/source/grid.brs(105)
105:             	if m.grid_content[msg.GetData()][msg.GetIndex()] <> invalid then

I was getting this error before and tried to implement Komag's suggestion, but I get the same error with the m.grid_content[msg.GetData()][msg.GetIndex()] reference.

For debugging purposes I output the keys of the multidimensional array as I build it with

console_log("grid_content["+Stri(j)+"]["+Stri(i)+"]")

But for some odd reason there's a space in front of the number

34. grid_content[ 0][ 17]
35. grid_content[ 0][ 18]
36. grid_content[ 1][ 0]
37. grid_content[ 1][ 1]

Even using the display code that came with the example shows a space

print "Focused msg: ";msg.GetMessage();"row: ";msg.GetIndex();
print " col: ";msg.GetData()

****PRODUCES****

Focused msg: row:  0 col:  2

So I'm thinking that the space is causing an issue, but I'm not sure how to rectify this or even why it's occurring. Here's the loops that create j and i

for j = 0 to (rsp.row.Count()-1)
    list = CreateObject("roArray", rsp.row[j].video.Count(), true)

    for i = 0 to (rsp.row[j].video.Count()-1)

So I guess what I was really trying to accomplish here was a way to trap such an error and not have it to cause an app crash.

Thanks.

[RokuMarkn]

No, the space has nothing to do with your problem. That's just the way Stri works, as described in the doc. And an error catching mechanism would not help you, the debugger is already telling you exactly where your program is crashing.

Your problem is m.grid_content is not a two dimensional array. It may not be an array at all. Try printing m.grid_content, then m.grid_content[0], then m.grid_content[0][0].

--Mark

[DukeOfMarshall]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that and here are the results

console_log(m.grid_content)

****PRODUCES****

Type Mismatch. (runtime error &h18) in ...AAen09b6/pkg:/source/main.brs(65)
065: 		print Stri(m.debug_counter)+". "+message

...

Local Variables:
message  &h4010 bsc:roArray, refcnt=2

console_log(m.grid_content[msg.GetIndex()])

****PRODUCES****

Type Mismatch. (runtime error &h18) in ...AA2jrvaZ/pkg:/source/main.brs(65)
065: 		print Stri(m.debug_counter)+". "+message

...

Local Variables:
message  &h0010 bsc:roArray, refcnt=2

console_log(m.grid_content[msg.GetIndex()][msg.GetData()])

****PRODUCES****

Type Mismatch. (runtime error &h18) in ...AAEAkRAV/pkg:/source/main.brs(65)
065: 		print Stri(m.debug_counter)+". "+message

...

Local Variables:
message  &h4010 bsc:roAssociativeArray, refcnt=2

[RokuMarkn]

Use "print", not console_log.

--Mark

[DukeOfMarshall]

Sorry about that. I used "print" directly and here are the results:

print m.grid_content
<Component: roArray>
<Component: roArray>
<Component: roArray>

print m.grid_content[0]
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>

print m.grid_content[0][2]
shortdescriptionline2: [ShortDescriptionLine2]
shortdescriptionline1: [ShortDescriptionLine1]
stream: <Component: roAssociativeArray>
sdposterurl: http://www.domain.com/5.jpg
description: [Description]
director: [Director]
rating: E
streamformat: mp4
length: 7402
hdposterurl: http://www.domain.com/0.jpg
title: Tuesday 2 of 3
contenttype: episode
actors: <Component: roArray>

[Rek]

"DukeOfMarshall" wrote:
Sorry about that. I used "print" directly and here are the results:

print m.grid_content
<Component: roArray>
<Component: roArray>
<Component: roArray>

print m.grid_content[0]
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>
<Component: roAssociativeArray>

print m.grid_content[0][2]
shortdescriptionline2: [ShortDescriptionLine2]
shortdescriptionline1: [ShortDescriptionLine1]
stream: <Component: roAssociativeArray>
sdposterurl: http://www.domain.com/5.jpg
description: [Description]
director: [Director]
rating: E
streamformat: mp4
length: 7402
hdposterurl: http://www.domain.com/0.jpg
title: Tuesday 2 of 3
contenttype: episode
actors: <Component: roArray>

Your problem is an attempt to access an element of a non-array:

Array operation attempted on variable not DIM'd. (runtime error &he7) in ...AArwSoW9/pkg:/source/grid.brs(105)
105: if m.grid_content[msg.GetData()][msg.GetIndex()] <> invalid then

In this case, the two possible arrays are: m.grid_content (an array of arrays), and m.grid_content[msg.GetData()] (one of the arrays in m.grid_content).

So, you probably want to do something like:

if type(m.grid_data) <> "roArray" then stop                            ' If this line crashes, m.grid_data is not a valid array
if type(m.grid_data[msg.GetData()]) <> "roArray" then stop  ' If this line crashes, m.grid_data[msg.GetData()] is not a valid array

That will at least help you narrow down which array is not valid. You still need to figure out why its not valid though...