Repeated "Βad argument #1 to 'char'" error while no app is running on Simulator

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi all! Since two months or so, the Corona Simulator Console keeps throwing the same error - bad argument #1 to ‘char’ - every 1 or 2 minutes. This happens only while no app is running on the Simulator. It never throws the error while an app is running, but as soon as I close an app it starts doing this and never stops. My console is filled with thousands of red chunks of this error which is quite annoying. This is what I am getting:

ERROR: Runtime error

bad argument #1 to ‘char’ (invalid value)

stack traceback:

[C]: in function ‘char’

?: in function <?:601>

[C]: in function ‘gsub’

?: in function ‘unescape’

?: in function ‘?’

?: in function <?:721>

(tail call): ?

?: in function <?:504>

?: in function <?:169>

Any ideas why this is happening and how I can stop it? I am using Corona version 2016.2949 and I am running on Mac OS.

Thanks!

#2

Can you try updating to a newer daily build and see if you’re still experiencing the issue?

On Macs, the daily build will install into /Applications/CoronaSDK-xxxx where xxxx is the build ID. That way you can keep your 2992 public version and test various daily build versions along side. Just make sure while you’re testing that you use the one in the daily build folder, not the public build.

Thanks

Rob

#3

I installed the latest daily build and the problem has stopped. Thanks for your help Rob!

#4

Can you try updating to a newer daily build and see if you’re still experiencing the issue?

On Macs, the daily build will install into /Applications/CoronaSDK-xxxx where xxxx is the build ID. That way you can keep your 2992 public version and test various daily build versions along side. Just make sure while you’re testing that you use the one in the daily build folder, not the public build.

Thanks

Rob

#5

I installed the latest daily build and the problem has stopped. Thanks for your help Rob!