Johnny 5 refuses to use my pathway on my driveway and I can’t figure it out. Maybe someone here can spot the issue. It’s crazy that Johnny travels from 1 side of my yard to the other through the back yard like 8-10 times and uses similar paths every time. It’s flattening my grass in those areas. I a…

There’s no legitimate reason for deleting a task when we delete an area or DeadEnd that is selected in that task. None. They do it because it never occurred to someone that a task might not have any selected areas / DEs in it. It’s a stupid, pointless oversight, and the sole reason for it is that …

Micke, Nothing you typed has anything to do with deleting an item from an array or linked list, let alone deleting the entire task array or list because one element was removed.

Yeah, I get you now, but I think we took the same problem differently… I’ve seen such code behaviors in other situations than an empty array, that is rooted in something much more deep in the code… that “might” offer an alternative to this recursive deletion… You’re saying the root of it is the tas…

[image] steve: Micke, Nothing you typed has anything to do with deleting an item from an array or linked list, let alone deleting the entire task array or list because one element was removed. Steve: Ok, if they coded it using plain arrays, then sure your point stands. But what I’m trying t…

[image] Micke: quick patch < looks around the room. / > From Yarbo? :rofl:

oh! Did not notice that… sounds like this might be one of those cases where the “huge scary bug” turns out to be nothing more than bad delete logic. Sometimes the monster under the bed is just a squeaky floorboard….

If that’s the case, it’s another simple fix that just doesn’t get implemented. Those are very frustrating.

Please confirm what I said is consistent in all cases. Create a dummy work plan and add a DE or NGZ and delete the DE/NGZ when it is part of a plan and when it isn’t.

It’s easy to see how such codebase would evolve. In the beginning, they wrote a task “object” that only allowed for one area to be snow-blowed. Hilarity ensued when someone then made it into an array for multiple areas, but the element delete handler IS THE APP when it completely overwrites the ta…

Johnny 5 won't use pathway

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JNS August 12, 2025, 1:03pm 56

I don’t think its that complicated. If you manually remove a DE from a plan and then delete the DE the previously associated plan isnt deleted. But if you delete the DE while its a member of a plan the whole plan gets deleted.

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