Compiling Error

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Wed Mar 30 14:50:17 EST 2005


Hi Varen,

> Hi everyone. I'm having one of those insane programming moments for 
> which I really need some help and advice.
> Here is my problem as clearly stated as I can do it:
>
> I have this piece of code, it works perfectly fine on a prototype 
> stack which I'm using to build my final application.
>
> on goNextThing
>   lock screen
>   goThing sThing+1
>   unlock screen with visual effect dissolve
> end goNextThing
>
> Yet, when I try to apply this code to my new stack with the code "with 
> visual effect dissolve" I get a parse error and message "Unquoted 
> Literal"
>
> This code works but with no visual effect:
>
> on goNextThing
>   lock screen
>   goThing sThing+1
>   unlock screen
> end goNextThing
>
> I was thinking that i'm getting this "Unquoted Literal" error because 
> the syntax somewhere else on that script is broken but I went through 
> the code character by character and there isn't any broken code at 
> all.
>
> I should note that on my previous post about this problem I stated the 
> target stack was different from the stack the code is in, I changed 
> that and it's all happening in one stack now. The action works 
> perfectly until I add the line "with visual effect dissolve".
>
> Can anyone offer some insight?

could you give a short hint on what "goThing x" does?
Maybe post the script?

May give an insane hint ;-)

> Thanks
>
> Var

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de



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