Wilful misuse of Revolution commands

[Francis Nugent Dixon]

Hi from Paris,

I do a lot of data entry in my multiple card stacks.
In order to speed up execution, if I didn't like the
entered data, I always coded :

   --  Error routine
   --
   push card
   go to card 1
   show field "ErrorMessage1"
   wait 2 secs
   hide field "ErrorMessage1"
   pop card
   -- etc.

This always pained me, 'cos it's not "elegant"
I didn't have the ErrorMessages in the data cards
for the obvious reason that they would waste space.
When I found (thanks Sarah and William) the pop-up
menu command, I thought I would use it for another
purpose (whereby wilful misuse):

   on mouseUp
   put field "ErrorMessage1" into button "MyErrorMenu"
   popup button "MyErrorMenu" at the loc of field "xxx"
   wait 2 secs
   click at loc of field "xxx" -- to make the menu go away !
   end mouseUp

OK !  I hadn't read the small print of the "popUp" command
which clearly states "While the popup menu is displayed,
the handler pauses." So THAT doesn't work !
Back to the drawing board (Sigh !)

Has anybody got any ideas about displaying an error
message in a card for a few seconds (without having
to click - I'm an anti-click fiend !), where the message
doesn't take up space in the card ?

-Francis

"Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"