I haven't done the tracing that you have, but I think my Type 2 crashes of
D8 on Mac OS 9.04 started when I started using the same type of calls...
Does this Cautionary Tale apply to D8.5?
Slava
At 12:43 PM 7/26/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Two days ago I started getting catastrophic crashes on my Mac that made
>Director simply vanish from my screen with a Type 2 error*...
>The line was something very like:
> sprite(29 + x).setprops(foo, bar, rabnicky)
>
>It was suggested that calling a handler that way, while it works most of
>the time, is not actually supported and that 'call' or 'sendsprite' are
>the ways to go. (thanks Dan S.)
>
>now I use:
>sendsprite(29 + x,#setprops,foo, bar, rabnicky)
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