Got a console error saying "You found a bug in Textfield... report to this email"

Haxe
#1

While testing the app froze and became unresponsive. I saw the console error:
Got a console error saying “You found a bug in Textfield… report to…”… don’t remember correctly.

I later found that error was caused by unbalanced html-tags used in the textfield. So when doing something like myTextfield.htmlText = "<b> lorem ipsum lorem impsum" the app freezes instead of just displaying it.

#2

Perhaps the bug is in parsing the tags and expecting but not finding a root tag. Which is to say that you found a potential bug they’ve been looking for. With more information, it’s likely to be nailed down. Can u provide context… It would be even better if u provide code that can’t help but to do something outside expectations, or, if u will, weird?

#3

I was able to sort it out by balancing the html-tags . But even if the tags are unbalanced, the normal behaviour should be displaying the text without html rendering. However in the current situation it halts the browser.

#4

Thanks for reporting it. I’ll make an issue on GitHub so it’s more visible (aka so we don’t forget).

#5

I just tried:

var textField = new TextField();
textField.htmlText = "<b>Hello World ";
addChild(textField);

…but no crash… perhaps we need a more complicated example?

Thanks :slight_smile:

#6

Hmm. I will need to check the same project again. Though I remember well balancing the tags helped me sort out the crash. Will check again.