stack trace is frying my head: summed with a screenshot

packrat

after a 15 hour long debugging process, it's culminated in this moment where i am completely stumped.
unless i am losing my mind, or i don't understand what a stack trace is, this statement which should evaluate to false, is not doing so. i've added notes to clarify what the enumerators equal to at the problem area.

any explanation at all is welcomed.

xyz

packrat

print(AnimationState.CLOSING_Y)
print(animation_state)
print(self.get_path())

packrat

i dont know how i got that screenshot, i dont know why it's not doing the thing anymore, i swear on my life i did not change a damn thing in the code between now and a half hour ago.

xyz i did this earlier, and the same confusion appeared. now it's not. i don't think it's a godot issue. i might be going insane.

xyz

packrat Have you had any new year cocktails in the last 4 hours? 😉

packrat

xyz i've not, but i've figured out what's going on.
turns out, i got it into my head that stack trace somehow remembered the state of variables at each stack frame. it does not. the stack variables only show the state of variables at the point execution was stopped.

as for using print as you suggested, i'm not kidding about "losing my mind", it's very likely i imagined it. it happens sometimes, and it correlates with bouts of intensely vivid dreams. i don't know if there's a name for that, but i have it pretty bad. i'd share more but this is not a lounge discussion, only a post-mortem of a bug caused by a non-existant bug i thought was real. human error is the proper term.

i'm going to drink myself sick now. happy new years.

edit: remember electrolytes, water, and protein with your binge drinking is key to a tolerable hangover

xyz

packrat edit: remember electrolytes, water, and protein with your binge drinking is key to a tolerable hangover

I think hydration alone is the miracle cure for hangover. Electrolytes and protein just add some nutritional value. That said, I haven't consumed hangover-inducing doses of alcohol in at least a decade. Happy new year!

packrat

xyz uh oh, you've activated the biologist inside me
the liver takes one of the top 5 spots in "most metabolically active organs in the body". that means it needs a lot of energy and salts in order to function at its best. yes, water is important since water is will the kidneys eventually flush the toxins out of the body, but that means the kidneys will also be flushing out a lot of salt with that water like some sort of collateral damage. you will need to replenish those, because flooding your system with distilled water alone won't do much besides causing bloat. remember, salts are the signal that tell your cells when to take in, release, and hold onto water.
so that's why water and salts are important. protein is important because several reasons. how important it really is can vary. if you like cocktails, you're going to end up downing a lot of sugar. clean proteins can act as a buffer to balance the insulin spike caused by those cocktails, preventing some of the garbage that comes with a sugar binge. to a cerain extent, protein is what enzymes are made from. enzymes are what your liver uses to break down reactive, non-water-soluable chemicals into less scary ones your that kidneys can flush out easier. i don't know how much protein that process actually depletes, nor how important protein really is as far as that goes, but i can tell you that eating a bunch of eggs is a very important step in my morning-after-stop-feeling-like-trash routine.

disclaimer: not a doctor, not sober, but unreasonably passionate about bio-chemistry for a high school dropout

kuligs2

im no metamorphosist but isnt its like..

you do the elf and it goes through the branch to return the animation_state then you set the animation_state with the following expression AnimationState.CLOSE == 0, so if its true then it will be set to 1, else 0.

So it works as expected?

packrat

the == 0 doesn't really appear in the code. i added that as i was cropping to clarify that nothing at any point should equal 1. you can tell by how blurry it is compared to the rest of the text in the screenshot. i have zero ideas to explain why the note isn't red as well. woopsy.

kuligs2

packrat i would then had to pull out a Hubble space telescope to discern the blurryness of the pixels.. anyways.

So what result are you expecting?

The break point you set is before the varriable animation_state is set, so at the break point it is 1.

xyz

I still think cocktails were somehow involved in this mysterious case... and perhaps some metabolically active tissue they conjugated with.