I have tinkered with Tasker on previous phones and generally managed to get it to do some useful stuff, though I am no expert. I have recently started playing around in Tasker again on a rooted Note 4 (SM-N910F), and I have noticed that things don't always work as expected... I know, I know... check for typos, user error, etc.
In an effort to debug a task that deals with appending characters to multiple variables, I deleted all non essential profiles, tasks and scenes, leaving 4x tasks (with less than 4 actions each) and 1x scene. I can append single digit numbers to one variable no problem, but in another variable I wanted to append a single "." at a time. This was not appending anything to the variable, so I changed the appended character to "o" instead. Lo and behold the variable in question is now appending "."s when that task is run. A lot of the errors (there have been some weird ones!) I have been seeing recently could be explained by some tasks and variables acting like previous/incomplete versions of themselves.
Is this something anyone else has experienced? I have a backup of my Tasker for anyone who wants to nose around in there to make sure I'm not calling "%Sanity eq 1/%Sanity" or other such nonsense. Just not sure the best way to get it to you. I am trying to build a custom PIN lock screen FYI. For those who do look around in there, the large grey button is an exit button so you don't lock yourself out of your phone, and the red button checks the entered PIN vs the stored one.
In an effort to debug a task that deals with appending characters to multiple variables, I deleted all non essential profiles, tasks and scenes, leaving 4x tasks (with less than 4 actions each) and 1x scene. I can append single digit numbers to one variable no problem, but in another variable I wanted to append a single "." at a time. This was not appending anything to the variable, so I changed the appended character to "o" instead. Lo and behold the variable in question is now appending "."s when that task is run. A lot of the errors (there have been some weird ones!) I have been seeing recently could be explained by some tasks and variables acting like previous/incomplete versions of themselves.
Is this something anyone else has experienced? I have a backup of my Tasker for anyone who wants to nose around in there to make sure I'm not calling "%Sanity eq 1/%Sanity" or other such nonsense. Just not sure the best way to get it to you. I am trying to build a custom PIN lock screen FYI. For those who do look around in there, the large grey button is an exit button so you don't lock yourself out of your phone, and the red button checks the entered PIN vs the stored one.
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