the object you are editing... Huh?

[Timothy Miller]

It's me, the original author, correcting myself.

>Hi Pat,
>
>Thanks for your kind attempt to help.
>
>No, those are not the circumstances. That's why it seemed 
>inexplicable. The circumstances you describe would make sense to me.
>
>I might have found the source of the problem, though.
>
>There was a handler in this bg left over from Hypercard:
>
>On closefield
>   put me into me
>   pass closeField
>end closefield


That should have been

on closeField
   put target into target
   pass closeField
end closeField

This handler remains a prime suspect, because I haven't seen the 
problem since I commented it out. Does the corrected version of the 
handler look more problematic?

After reading Dennis Brown's enlightening comment, I realize that the 
improvement might be a coincidence. I doubt I was doing what Dennis 
described, but maybe I was doing it unwittingly. As I recall, I never 
had more than one script window open at a time. I'll pay more 
attention, and see what develops. If the problem persists, Dennis has 
provided a good clue.

Thanks to Dennis, Pat and Jon.

Regarding top-posting, I guess I'll take the lead of the previous 
author on the thread. If he/she has top-posted, so will I. If he/she 
has bottom-posted, I will too. I don't really care. Both practices 
mixed in the same quoted thread would produce confusion, of course. 
Some lists are intensely critical of top-posting, so I've learned to 
be wary. Comp.sys.mac.sys, for example.

Have a nice day,


Tim

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