topic Re: Useless Error Message in Documentation

Useless Error Message

Robert Nichols — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:05:39 GMT

I've seen this complaint in the forums (fora?) going years back. When generating a 3D view, in a few projects I get an "Errors occurred during the last operation" (see attached screenshot). That's it. No context. Nothing in the session report. I have no idea if critical something is missing, if I've got bad GDL, missing texture.jpg, etc. Why is this so hard to fix? Periodically I try to weed through embedded libraries, etc. looking for potential performance bottlenecks. Seems quite like that the identified "error" could yield a performance problem, but no suggestion how to fix it!!!

Re: Useless Error Message

Barry Kelly — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 06:20:17 GMT

I don't know if this will help get rid of the particular error (as you say no way of knowing what it is about).

But try the 'Open & Repair' option when you open a file from the FILE menu.

Barry.

Re: Useless Error Message

DGSketcher — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 11:08:20 GMT

Which will probably give an equally unsettling advisory that things have been fixed or removed without identifying them... 🙄

Re: Useless Error Message

JeffB — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 15:33:46 GMT

I you set the reporting to maximum detail you will see the cause of the error - with specific ID of the offending element that you can then search for.

Re: Useless Error Message

DGSketcher — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:11:43 GMT

@JeffB Always learning in AC. How do you set the reporting to maximum detail?

Re: Useless Error Message

Barry Kelly — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:49 GMT

In the Work Environment > User Preference Schemes > Model Rebuild Options.

To access the report use File menu > Info > Session Report.

Barry.

Re: Useless Error Message

Robert Nichols — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 22:35:29 GMT

Barry,

Thanks a million for this tip. I fixed my problematic GDL code about 10 minutes after reading your comment above. The GDL code editor blessed the code, but would still cough up an error that showed up in Session Report once detail level was set to high.

Re: Useless Error Message

Barry Kelly — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 07:16:45 GMT

Actually it was @JeffB that suggested the tip.

I just showed where it was.

Barry.

Re: Useless Error Message

Robert Nichols — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 16:15:05 GMT

Oh right. I wonder if @JeffB is the Jeff B I used to work for, right down the street from my current studio???

Re: Useless Error Message

JeffB — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:29:47 GMT

Yep! That's me! Hello Robert 😀