Sphere 1.x error behavior

December 03, 2016, 11:15:08 am

In the process of assessing minisphere backwards compatibility, I found out that Sphere 1.x is quite misbehaved when certain kinds of errors occur.

If one does this in Sphere 1.5:

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try { LoadImage("nonexistent"); }
catch(e) { }

It produces an uncatchable error and terminates the engine, bypassing the try/catch entirely. This is not really desirable behavior: I don't think I'll emulate that particular quirk.

Re: Sphere 1.x error behavior

Reply #1 – December 04, 2016, 12:11:58 am

Oh man this has messed me up many times. Many resource and other functions do indeed quit without throwing an error. I've wrapped my game in a try catch block to catch anything, but many times it just fails flat.