A Bonehead Programming "Bug"

[Renegade]

Ok, this is something that I have done twice (second time being just now), and it's really quite funny, though totally boneheaded...

So, I'm programming away and trying to get the code in this one method to work, and nothing seems to be working. I fart around doing this and that and still nothing works. 15 minutes or so go by and then it dawns on me...

Bug fix...

You've got to call the method first!

Anyways, thought that might be a bit entertaining for a few here. (Am I the only one to have done this?)

[Ath]

  Need more coffee (or other stimulants) ?

[Renegade]

Need more coffee (or other stimulants) ?

-Ath (September 20, 2012, 04:05 AM)

Coffee is my stimulant of choice! Turkish fine double with milk and honey.

[Stoic Joker]

Anyways, thought that might be a bit entertaining for a few here. (Am I the only one to have done this?)

-Renegade (September 20, 2012, 03:49 AM)

I can attest to there being at least two of us guilty of that.

[Deozaan]

I've done it.

I just barely complete putting the finishing touches on a new function/method I've created and then I go to test it out and... nothing happens?

Oh yeah! Gotta put in a call to the function/method first!

[wraith808]

I had a similar problem recently that I spent half the day on 

In one particular case, the data wasn't rendering.  I called over someone to look at it with me, and she pointed out that in the case where it wasn't rendering, I wasn't returning a value, just null.  D'oh!

And on that subject... I saw this piece of code:

Code: C# [Select]

1. private void Execute()
2. {
3.     if (InvokeRequired)
4.     {
5.         lock (new object())
6.         {
7.             if (m_instance != null)
8.                 Invoke(new threadDelegate(Execute), new object[] { });
9.         }
10.     }
11.     else
12.     {
13.         if(OnInstanceChanged != null)
14.             OnInstanceChanged();
15.     }
16. }

WTF?!?

[kyrathaba]

@OP: Heh, you've only done that twice? I'm sure I've done it several times  

[Renegade]

@OP: Heh, you've only done that twice? I'm sure I've done it several times 

-kyrathaba (September 20, 2012, 07:27 PM)

Actually, I only *remember* doing it once before, and the other time I spent, well, lets just say more than 15 minutes. 

[jgpaiva]

It's even funnier when you forget to start a thread in a multi-threaded program. Just happened to me. Twice