What is wrong with this script?

[charles61]

Jacqueline,

I am using the handler to send mouseUp commands to Print Only cards for printing. I will try your suggestion of combing two commands in a handler. And, yes I did try command period several times without success.

Charles Szasz
cszasz at mac.com




On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:23 PM, J. Landman Gay [via Runtime Revolution] wrote:

> On 11/4/10 7:55 PM, charles61 wrote: 
> 
> > When I of marked card y, the script that looks like the following 
> > caused the printing to hang and I had to force quit Rev 4.0 and 
> > relaunch Rev. 
> 
> This, plus the recursion error you got, likely indicates that your 
> scripts are going in circles without a way to complete. What does your 
> "mouseUp" handler do exactly? If it calls a different handler, which in 
> turn calls the mouseUp again, then your script will loop between the two 
> handlers until eventually you get the error, or it looks like you hung. 
> (Did you try command-period to stop the scripts?) 
> 
> Usually it's better not to call system messages if possible. Instead of 
> sending a mouseup to a button, send a custom handler name instead. Then 
> have your mouseUp handler call that same custom handler. For example, if 
> you have this: 
> 
> on mouseUp 
>    commandOne 
>    commandTwo 
> end mouseUp 
> 
> Instead, do this: 
> 
> on mouseUp 
>   doStuff 
> end mouseUp 
> 
> on doStuff 
>    commandOne 
>    commandTwo 
> end doStuff 
> 
> Now your looping reset script can send "doStuff" to each button instead 
> of sending "mouseUp" to it. In fact, all your handlers that need to do 
> the mouseUp button stuff should be sending "doStuff" instead. 
> 
> 
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