the object you are editing... Huh?

[Pat Trendler]

Tim,

I've tried various other ways to try and force that error msg to appear. 
Just couldn't get it to happen.
Your explanation for your case is probably right.

Re top posting, I don't know. I've seen this discussion on other lists, and 
after everybody has had their say - they all go back to whatever they were 
doing in the first place.

Personally, I prefer top posting.

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 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: the object you are editing... Huh?


> 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
>>>_______________________________________________