force EDITOR to temporarily loose connection in V1.70

[PeterN]

I am using 1.70.5 and can force the EDITOR to a "CONNECTION ERROR/OFF/ON" by simply two methods

1. use a program code containing e.g. WLOG CHR$(248)
2. Lookup a variable that contains ASCII 248 with the editor's variable watch

Came to this result when my original code used CHR$(248) to show the Celsius symbol behind a temperature value on a MAX7219-matrix. a I just wanted to look at the variable containing this code by WLOG or with the variable watch.

Here my test code that should simply WLOG the time once per second, but produces a connection error of the IDE.

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' TEST.BAS
'###########################################
While 1
  T$     = TIME$
  TEXT$  = str$(RND(200))  + chr$(248) + "C"
  WLOG "TIME$=",T$
  WLOG "TEXT$=", TEXT$
  PAUSE 1000
wend

The WLOG output:

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28/01/2025 15:53:30 -> Program Running
TIME$=    15:53:30
28/01/2025 15:53:30 => Connection Error
28/01/2025 15:53:30 => Connection OFF
28/01/2025 15:53:34 => Connection ON
TIME$=    15:53:34
28/01/2025 15:53:34 => Connection Error
28/01/2025 15:53:34 => Connection OFF
28/01/2025 15:53:44 => Connection ON
TIME$=    15:53:44
28/01/2025 15:53:44 => Connection Error
28/01/2025 15:53:44 => Connection OFF
28/01/2025 15:53:54 => Connection ON
TIME$=    15:53:54
28/01/2025 15:53:54 => Connection Error
28/01/2025 15:53:54 => Connection OFF
28/01/2025 15:54:04 => Connection ON
TIME$=    15:54:04
28/01/2025 15:54:05 => Connection Error
28/01/2025 15:54:05 => Connection OFF
28/01/2025 15:54:14 => Connection ON
TIME$=    15:54:14
28/01/2025 15:54:14 => Connection Error
28/01/2025 15:54:14 => Connection OFF
28/01/2025 15:54:24 => Connection ON
28/01/2025 15:54:24 -> Program Stopped

The serial messages report an invalid UTF-8 in Text frame.

Looks like this on my desktop:

Screenshot.jpg

This behavior might be unwanted as it produces a problem if you look at or use WLOG with variables containing special white characters.

[cicciocb]

This is a known "problem" as the websocket do not recognize characters that are not UTF-8.

So, use print instead

[PeterN]

I have understood.
I can avoid WLOG, but the problem is that a variable containing such a character produces strange effects in the editor's variable monitoring (unknown variable) and disrupts the connection for no "obvious" reason

[cicciocb]

I have understood.
I can avoid WLOG, but the problem is that a variable containing such a character produces strange effects in the editor's variable monitoring (unknown variable) and disrupts the connection for no "obvious" reason

convert in hex and show the value in hex

[PeterN]

Please look at my screenshot. The monitoring was set to show the variables each 5 seconds.
How could I avoid the connection crashes and „no show“ of the variable‘ content?

[PeterN]

Debugging by watching variables isn’t easy that way

[cicciocb]

use replace$ of this character with another one.

There are no solutions actually, only UTF-8 characters can be shown

[PeterN]

WLOG is not so critical. But you can not trust in the variable watcher any more

[cicciocb]

WLOG is not so critical. But you can not trust in the variable watcher any more

Don't be so catastrophic !

Now you know how do it

The nice side is that you can use special characters like the accented characters éùàç .....

At the same time, what do you expect to have in the variable watcher with this character (248)?
It is not a printable character, after all ...

[PeterN]

At the same time, what do you expect to have in the variable watcher with this character (248)?
It is not a printable character, after all ...

No, just the other way around
I did not want the Editor to be crashed by an unwanted included white character