topic Re: Infinite loops detection in Libraries & objects

Infinite loops detection

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 07:10:27 GMT

Hi!
it would be great if Archicad could detect when an object is stuck in an infinite loop and would avoid interpreting it.
This causes crashes and is especially very annoying when the object is spread over the whole office when working in teamwork.
If you append to sync the library with a bad object it will be copied on every local copy when "send&receive" is pressed by client and is a pain to fix and causes some data loss.

Would that be possible in the future?
maybe I should make it a poll.

/olivier

Re: Infinite loops detection

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:48:15 GMT

Yes, I think you should make this into a wish.

Re: Infinite loops detection

sinceV6 — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 17:10:51 GMT

Hi.

Just add a very high counter inside the loop so that if you create an infinite loop by accident, it'll stop after a certain amount of iterations.

Something like:

thisLoopCounter = 1

REPEAT

     thisLoopCounter = thisLoopCounter + 1

     the code inside the loop

UNTIL yourConditionIsTrue or thisLoopCounter > 10000

Easy to locate and fix. Hard to create the habit.

Best regards.