Re: [lmi] Difficulty editing particular fields in census manager

[Greg Chicares]

On 2018-08-30 00:39, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:30:22 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
> GC> and a deep stack of messageboxes, one of which
[...snip...]
> GC> while the other showed nothing but a single, lonely hyphen; leaning on
> GC> Esc didn't close them all, so I killed the process. I'd rather not
> GC> repeat that experience, so I don't give detailed instructions to
> GC> reproduce it, but I suspect you'd have no trouble provoking the same
> GC> kind of meltdown.
> 
>  Actually I do, but it's because I'm using MSVC for testing right now. But
> I do indeed see the assert when pressing minus in the editor. I think it
> could actually be a separate bug, but I prefer to really fix the first one
> before dealing with it just in case this one disappears too then.

Aha--I would certainly have pressed the Minus key while testing numeric
data entry, so you've solved the Case of the Mysterious Messagebox.
I thought it was a dash with an empty string on each side, e.g.:
  printf '%s–%s' "This is a char*" "that got overwritten with nulls"
but it was really telling me exactly what I needed to know, kind of
like "pedo mellon a mino" on the Doors of Durin: type '-' and crash.