Thanks to all for your input into this problem. I received a response on DIRECT-L that helped point me in the right direction.
I had recently done a little cleaning up of one of my casts -- deleted some unused members and moved others around a little. It appears that the getPropertyDescriptionList values of one of my Push Button behaviors got corrupted in the process. I had to go through the area of the score where I thought the problem was occurring, sprite by sprite to find the afflicted behavior, but sure enough it was there. I just brought up the dialog box for the behavior and reselected the parameters and all was OK. Hopefully this will help others who run into this problem in the future. I must say, however, that in the other situations that I've seen this, I don't recall that this was the fix to the problem. But who knows? Sometimes I think you end up trying 5 different things to solve a problem and you can't be sure which one solved it. on 2/4/02 5:58 PM, Leah Kramer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I forgot to mention that this is D8 on Mac. > > on 2/4/02 5:43 PM, Leah Kramer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm wondering if anyone has conquered this Director quirk before. We've >> seen it a few times here and have had to pretty much scrap the movie and >> start over when it happens. >> >> The deal is, that out of the blue, you start getting an error that says: >> >> "Incorrect behavior initializer. (Periods are not allowed in symbols) ..." >> >> The error message goes on to display a line of code which if you look at the >> script it comes from, has nothing to do with behavior initializers. And >> nowhere are we using symbol names with periods. >> >> Once, we did have luck taking certain script cast members, copying out the >> code into BBEDIT, removing gremlins and copying it back in but that's not >> working for me now. >> >> Errrgh. >> >> There's mention of this error in the 1999 Direct-L digests but not really >> any resolution to it. >> >> Hope someone knows the answer to this! >> >> Thanks, >> Leah >> >> [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >> http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is >> for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] >> > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is > for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
