Burning Desire stack - "shell" command problem

Alex Rice alex at mindlube.com
Wed Jan 21 19:38:37 EST 2004


On Jan 21, 2004, at 3:52 PM, Barry Levine wrote:

> I have a button with the following script:
>
> on mouseUp
>   shell (field "theImageToCreate")
> end mouseUp
>
> When the script executes, I get an error. Here's the error dialog info:

The examples in the Transcript Dictionary are misleading because shell 
is a function not a command! so you can't ignore the return value. Try 
this instead:

get shell(field "theImageToCreate")

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