the object you are editing... Huh?

[Timothy Miller]

Hi Pat,

Thanks for your kind attempt to help.

No, those are not the circumstances. That's why it seemed 
inexplicable. The circumstances you describe would make sense to me.

I might have found the source of the problem, though.

There was a handler in this bg left over from Hypercard:

On closefield
   put me into me
   pass closeField
end closefield

This might seem insane, but it worked great in HC. The purpose? I 
often paste text from other sources into fields in this bg. I want 
the pasted text to lose its original attributes and take on those 
assigned to text in the field I am pasting into.

I have a hunch Rev choked on this one. Maybe because the script 
editor is another stack. I suppose the script editor is in the 
hierarchy when I'm editing a script. Or something...

I commented out this handler, and a couple of other suspicious ones, 
but this is the prime candidate. No problems since then. I'm keeping 
my fingers crossed.

Any thoughts?

Best regards,


Tim

BTW -- Is it okay to top post on this list? Or does anyone care? I 
just want to follow the rules.

>Tim,
>
>The only time I have seen this msg is if the stack has been closed 
>and removed from memory, but the script editor for the object is 
>still open and I have tried to make changes.
>
>Is that when the msg occurs for you, or does it happen under 
>different circumstances?
>
>Pat
>patrend at bigpond.com
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Miller" 
><gandalf at doctorTimothyMiller.com>
>To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:08 PM
>Subject: the object you are editing... Huh?
>
>>At unpredictable times, when trying to edit a script -- the script 
>>of a card field at the moment -- I get an error message I can't 
>>understand. I'm doing all the logical obvious things that a 
>>moderately competent novice would do, before and after encountering 
>>this error message. They aren't working.
>>
>>The message:
>>
>>"The object you are editing appears to have been removed or 
>>deleted. Do you want to copy the text you are editing to the 
>>clipboard before closing this script?" The two response buttons in 
>>the error dialog box are "copy and close" and "close"
>>
>>--What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>--What is the significance of this error message? It must occur for 
>>a good reason, but I can't figure it out.
>>
>>Thanks to all those who have generously offered assistance in the 
>>past week or two.
>>
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>
>>Tim
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