Bug? BBCodeView throws exception if text is enclosed in square brackets (and considered an invalid tag)

walt61

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See subject and attached demo project. If BBCodeView1.Text is set to some string that contains square brackets but these don't enclose a valid tag, an exception is thrown and the BBCodeView becomes empty and further unusable (further attempts to set the text result in more RuntimeExceptions). The log shows (when "[MyText]" was added):
Error (position - 0): Invalid tag: MyText
(RuntimeException) java.lang.RuntimeException: Object should first be initialized (List).

Perhaps is an invalid tag is encountered, it should be considered as plain text.

I've only tested this with B4J; perhaps it is a B4X-wide issue?
 

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walt61

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So be it. Just some background info: the offending text was something I received, not something I created myself - and hadn't noticed the tags (at least not before @stevel05 mentioned them).

Just a suggestion (use it or lose it): if error message "[B]Error[/B] (position - 0): Invalid tag: MyText" would be changed to "[B]BBCodeView Error[/B] (position - 0): Invalid tag: MyText", I'd have spotted it sooner.
 
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