thanks for the reply Dan, although that is a problem i do have at present and as you rightly said it is trying to a reference complex variable as a simple variable
although this actual issue is not my problem. my problem is finding the offending code that has this issue. once i can find the offending piece of code then i will be able to fix it. my problem is that i am using cfinvoke to invoke a method in one of my cfc's. that cfc method uses lots of other methods to complete its work. but when i use the cfinvoke the tag context in the resulting error stops at the cfinvoke tag. so the only detail i get of the error is about the complex variable trying to be treated as a simple value. but it has no reference as to what function it is in or what line of code the offending error is occuring. is there a way i can get it to show this? thanks richard >The problem is that you are trying to treat a complex object as a simple >value. > >Take the following example. I am creating array that holds 2 values. If I >were to dump it everything would be fine but If I tried to output it like >below I would get the same error you are. > ><cfset skills = ArrayNew(1)> ><cfset arrayAppend(skills,"ColdFusion")> ><cfset arrayAppend(skills,"JavaScript")> > ><cfoutput>#skills#</cfoutput> > >This is because the compiler does not understand what you are trying to do. >If you want to see the string representation of this object you could always >use the toString() method. > ><cfoutput>#skills.toString()#</cfoutput> > >Hope this clears it up a little. > >Thank You >Dan Vega >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.danvega.org > > > > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:312702 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
