Very strange. As mentioned, I got round the problem by using a do command:
do "set the hilite of control x of this card to" && the cInitialValue of control x of this card That worked with no other changes to the overall logic of the handler in detecting what type of control I'm dealing with. Pete On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote: > Pete- > > Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 5:23:11 PM, you wrote: > > > Hi Mark, > > That's where I started - I added the parens to see if it made any > > difference. I just tried it again without the parens and still get the > > same error. Wonder if it's a version thing - I'm on 4.6.4 > > I did that on 4.6.4 as well. 5.0 is too buggy for me. It worked from > the message box. > > -- > -Mark Wieder > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode