Destroyed BindToClose script breaks Stop button

sleitnick · July 23, 2018, 9:31pm

If a script using game:BindToClose() is destroyed, then the Stop button in Studio breaks. This forces the user to have to exit out of Studio without stopping the game.

Easy to replicate:

With any place in Studio, create a new Script and put in any BindToClose code such as below:

      game:BindToClose(function() --[[ Anything or nothing here ]] end)

Run the game
Delete the script
Press the Stop button in Studio
Notice error:

The “Show Details…” button literally just shows the contents of the Output window. Nothing useful there.

Thundermaker300 · July 23, 2018, 9:36pm

Can confirm this is also happening to me. After pressing OK, studio freezes and you can’t do anything else without restarting studio.

inHeadspace · July 23, 2018, 9:41pm

Yep. Studio just froze after clicking “Ok” and nothing happens. Had to use the task manager to close it.

Stratiz · July 23, 2018, 11:00pm

My question is what reason would you have to destroy a script with bind to close in it?

Thundermaker300 · July 24, 2018, 12:32am

No reason, but this still isn’t intentional which is what makes it a bug.

sleitnick · July 24, 2018, 4:10am

Possible scenario: You have a vehicle script that uses BindToClose to save data when the server closes, but you accidentally drive it off the map in Studio…now you’re unable to stop Studio

kni0002 · August 25, 2018, 11:55am

Actually this did happen to me when debugging some scripts that same code in it and it broke the stop button multiple times, actually confused me a few times.

Aorda · August 23, 2020, 2:42pm

Can confirm that this is still happening. The tycoon game I am working on has each tycoon save data by an individual script, which uses BindToClose. After adding the ability to rebirth upon completing the tycoon, the old one gets destroyed, and thus this issue occurs.

There is no way of getting around it easily, so my request is for it to get fixed.