I was helping a newcomer with a scripting problem, and I found what seems to
be an anomaly in MC's behavior:
He has a script which read:
put tMyValue into fld "Start"
It generated an error, "Object not found" (actually the error reported was
"Parent not found", which is less clear, but we've come to learn that this
usually means the specified object, not its parent).
Since I was able to guess that this stack was imported from HyperCard, I
tried a hunch which worked: I recreated the stack as a native MetaCard
file, and it works just fine.
Going back to the HyperCard-imported version, I had to change the script to
specify the layer in order for it to work:
put tMyValue into card fld "Start"
Normally MC doesn't care whether an object is in a group or not, and will
figure these things out well on its own. Why would it matter if the stack
was imported from HyperCard? Is there another factor at play as well that I
may be overlooking?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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