What kind of control are you passing to FrmGetObjectIndex ? I had a similar
problem because I was attempting to get the index of an object that did not
work with this function.
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip J. Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 2:58 PM
Subject: FormPtr problems STILL! Please Help.
>Hi,
>Ok as I said in my previous messages.. One of my forms will not work. This
>is very frustrating. When I do the API calls mentioned below the program
>crashes the first time I try to use the variable frmP. That is in
>FrmGetObjectIndex.. When I step through with the metroworks debugger I end
>up looking at a bunch of assembly code. When the program finnaly crashes so
>that I can no longer debug, the function call is (0x4 or 0x8 Unknown) and I
>can see in the debug window a messages that says "invalid opcode". Now the
>code that is causing this works for all other forms, just not this form.
>I've looked at all the values of frmP after the FrmGetActiveForm(); call.
>Everything seems to be OK. and objectID is also correct. I'm lost here, I
>don't know where to start. Maybe someone could just give me a little hint
as
>to how I could go about attacking this problem? :)
>
>I'm thinking there is something in the forms resource definition that is
>screwy.. but I don't see how, b/c I didn't write that.. :)
>
>Thank you,
>Philip J. Matheson.
>
>"Philip J. Matheson" wrote:
>
>> When ever I try to use FrmGetActiveForm(); and I'm in a particular
>> form... it does not work.. I get a bad pointer error.
>>
>> This just started happening in code that was working... ugh. I thught I
>> may have hosed my ROM but I got a new rom for the POSE.
>>
>> if I do something like:
>>
>> FormPtr frmP = FrmGetActiveForm();
>>
>> and then..
>>
>> FrmGetObjectPtr(frmP, FrmGetObjectIndex(frmP, objectID)
>>
>> the application crashes..
>>
>> Now this is only when a particular form is the current form.. other
>> forms in my application work fine. What could possibly be wrong with the
>> form? The resource seem to be fine when I look at it in constructor.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Philip J. Matheson
>
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