Puzzler (why does this error?)

[Ken Ray]

On 9/25/04 6:47 PM, "Geoff Canyon" <gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com> wrote:

> On Sep 24, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
> 
>> Hi inspir, or may i call you Geoff? ;-)
>> 
>>> This line executed in the message box:
>>> 
>>> put the allowKeyInField of field id 1008 of card id 1002 of stack
>>> "Untitled 1"
>>> 
>>> produces this error:
>>> 
>>> Message execution error:
>>> Error description: Handler: can't find handler
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Yup, it's a keyword :-)
>> 
>> I has no effect and is included in Transcript for compatibility with
>> imported
>> SuperCard projects.
> 
> I figured that out a bit after sending this email. But why should it
> error? If it's a vestigial property as described in the docs I would
> think it should return a default value: false, since Revolution doesn't
> deliver keyInField messages.

The reason you got an error is that you were using it like a field property
- it's not, it's a global property in SuperCard. So if you say (in the
message box):

  put the allowKeyInField

you get "false"; if you say:

  put the allowKeyInField of field 1
 
you get the error you described.

HTH,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com