Broke Ruby User Defined ???

[stevenyhof]

Hello,

Maybe someone can help me on this. I'm hoping I didn't break anything...

https://www.loom.com/share/ae809a120e45408aac103b43353b9b2f

Thank you,

Steve

[stevenyhof]

It seems something might be wrong with the height as the width works. But when I look at the macro formatting it looks the same other than width vs depth

[stevenyhof]

Hmmm

Now many are back showing valid

 

[stevenyhof]

I did not touch this, but noticed that FormatterDepthSixteenths and FormatterHeightSixteenths have the same code for obj.depth. So I did changed the FormatterHeightSixteenths to obj.height and now it gives me a valid number in the Expanded Macro Value field.

 

[stevenyhof]

And now it is working... Chief may want to look into this. Maybe Height and Depth give the same result, but something went wrong only by me making a copy of the formattedHeightSixteenths macro

 

[stevenyhof]

So I think I am all back to working again, but again, can anyone else verify that FormatterHeightSixteenths does in fact show obj.depth. I changed it to obj.height and now it is working.

[Joe_Carrick]

Steven,

 

The first error was because you hadn't selected an object that had a width.  Nil Class indicates that there's no object to evaluate.

 

These macros supplied by Chief do not have "error handling" so they require that they reference only objects that have the attributes width or height.  That can also cause an error to occur.

 

When I create a macro I include "error handling" so that the macro will either:

• report why it failed ---  example:  No Object Selected to Evaluate
• or return simply a blank string
• or return a value of zero

It depends on what the macro is supposed to do.  I try to anticipate what the user needs to see in order to know what to return.

[stevenyhof]

Here is a final update on what I did...

https://www.loom.com/share/2583d3cb491c44c5b3f2016d66fb9d41

[stevenyhof]

15 minutes ago, Joe_Carrick said:

Steven,

 

The first error was because you hadn't selected an object that had a width.  Nil Class indicates that there's no object to evaluate.

 

These macros supplied by Chief do not have "error handling" so they require that they reference only objects that have the attributes width or height.  That can also cause an error to occur.

 

When I create a macro I include "error handling" so that the macro will either:

• report why it failed ---  example:  No Object Selected to Evaluate
• or return simply a blank string
• or return a value of zero

It depends on what the macro is supposed to do.  I try to anticipate what the user needs to see in order to know what to return.

Ah! I understand. Thank you