getting bogged down with the selectedObject

[RM]

I dunno who was or wasn't being rude: but, Dar, you helped me out of the 
bog.

Thank you very much indeed.

Richmond.

On 30.05.2016 22:00, Dar Scott wrote:
> Shouldn't the selected object list be empty in that case?  Can you check that?
>
> Or are you getting a crash in just doing this:
>
> get the selectedObject
>
> Dar
> darzLab
>
>
>> On May 30, 2016, at 12:43 PM, RM <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So; here I am mucking around with my alternative front-end and have a merry little button
>> with this script in it:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>    put fld "nname" into NN
>>    set the name of the selectedObject to NN
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> which, unsurprisingly perhaps, changes the name of a selectedObject
>> in the topStack [which is what it is meant to do].
>>
>> However, I cannot work out how to stop the button "throwing a bluey"
>> when nothing is selected.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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