error with revIDEHandleMouseUp ?

Sarah Reichelt sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Sat Jun 20 05:45:41 EDT 2009


On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Curt Ford<curt at sonasoftware.com> wrote:
> A substack which has so far been behaving itself is acting strangely.. when
> I open the substack from its mainstack (via a pulldown menu), the IDE seems
> to freeze; after a minute or so I get an error:
>
> 'The handler: revIDEHandleMouseUp has reached the recursion limit of:
> 400000. Execution will be terminated to prevent hang.'
>
> I can click 'OK' out of that, and if I click the pointer tool for edit mode
> immediately, I can work a little with the stack; as soon as I choose the
> browse tool to run it, it gets stuck again & shows the same error.
>
> I can open the substack from the application browser but it freezes up
> immediately again when I choose the browse tool.
>
> I didn't see anything about revIDEHandleMouseUp in the Quality Control
> Centre. Any suggestions how to start troubleshooting?
>
> Running 3.5; upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5.7 just last night.. hmm..

Lock messages before opening that sub-stack. Then check all open...
and preOpen.. handlers in that stack, card and in the mainStack.
I would guess the recursion is happening there, even though the error
report indicates the Rev IDE.

Cheers,
Sarah



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