Puzzler (why does this error?)

Geoff Canyon gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com
Sat Sep 25 19:47:29 EDT 2004


On Sep 24, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Klaus Major wrote:

> Hi inspir, or may i call you Geoff? ;-)
>
>> This line executed in the message box:
>>
>> put the allowKeyInField of field id 1008 of card id 1002 of stack 
>> "Untitled 1"
>>
>> produces this error:
>>
>> Message execution error:
>> Error description: Handler: can't find handler
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Yup, it's a keyword :-)
>
> I has no effect and is included in Transcript for compatibility with 
> imported
> SuperCard projects.

I figured that out a bit after sending this email. But why should it 
error? If it's a vestigial property as described in the docs I would 
think it should return a default value: false, since Revolution doesn't 
deliver keyInField messages.

gc



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