Howdy and Florian have told you what the problem is (your global variable goMulti is not getting assigned a value). But if you would like a quick tutorial on using the Debugger, check out:
http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=871 Learning to use the debugger is absolutely worthwhile, if you're going to do software development in Lingo. Good luck, Irv At 10:33 PM +0800 4/14/02, noelle cheng wrote: >Hi, > >I am trying to learn to use the debugger to correct the errors in my code. > >This is the line which stopped the running of the program : > >goMulti.mSetUserOption(pIndex,pIndexValue) > > >In the top righthand box, the list of variables were specified: > >me= <offspring"filea"4 4f8f94> >goMulti = <void> >etc >This was the only void variable. > >In the original file where the program was running properly, the >list of variables were specified as follows: > >me= <offspring"filea"4 4f8f94> >goMulti = <offspring"fileb"1 4f91b0> >etc > >I do not understand. Why is there a void? The program I was >debugging has an identical fileb, yet why did the program not >execute? > >TIA for helping. > >Noelle > > > >[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!] -- Lingo / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. (Home-made Lingo cooked up fresh every day just for you.) [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!]