----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This kind of issue would be solved if Macromedia gave us decent exception > handling, so that we could stay in the scope of any anticipated errors when and > where they happened without being catapulted into the nebulous world of > alerthook, which pops the entire call stack. (Does anyone ever use the > alertHook?)
Christoffer has a try/catch object in his files area at openLingo (www.openlingo.org). It's a start, but it's not perfect. AFAIK, it only works properly in projectors. Personally, I would like some form of exception handling built into Lingo, but not like the clunky try/catch blocks in Java that make a simple 1 line function into about 10 lines of exception handlers. Perhaps something more like VBScript's "on error..." although I don't really know how good that is because I don't do much VB. Still, the main thing is that for the most part when scripting, errors can simply be ignored. As long as we know that VOID = 0 = false, and functions return VOID on error, then we can usually write code that doesn't care about the difference between VOID and 0. The only reason we would care is if we have a specific reason to care, or after this thread, because it seems that the aforementioned does not hold true in Lingo. - Robert [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!]
