It generally means that you tried to call an undefined variable. Why it couldn't just say that, I don't know. I think that a group of Macromedia nerds were trying to cook up an error message that sounded more ominous than 'Java null pointer exception'. You know...something to strike fear into the end users.
-----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:55 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Aaack! What does this error message mean? Hi, all I knew Id get into some hairy error messages once I moved from CF 4.5 to CF 8 well I got one. (Thanks, Will ;o) "dereference a scalar variable of type class java.lang.String as a structure with members" ??? Come on, what in the world! Anyway, what does this mean? I havent had any problems with this way of setting up email variables until I started working on a form on another part of the site this morning Thanks, Rick ============================================================================ ======================== ========= The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes. Error Occurred While Processing Request You have attempted to dereference a scalar variable of type class java.lang.String as a structure with members. The error occurred in E:\Inetpub\webroot\c21-ar\Application.cfm: line 8 6 : <!--- Setup variables for homepage visit email notice ---> 7 : 8 : <CFSET Email.To = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> 9 : <CFSET Email.From = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> 10 : <CFSET Email.Subject = "Visitor to the Century 21 Action Realty Development Site"> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:299435 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
