[Javascript] ---OBJECT REQUIRED?---

Fri May 31 10:34:48 CDT 2002

You have a misplaced semi-colon in your body tag, perhaps this is the
culprit causing a chain effect. You have:

 onResize="tryagain()"; 

The semi-colon is outside the quotations for onResize, try
onResize="tryagain();"  and maybe things will magically work again, and
I sympathize, debugging JavaScript is ~never fun imo.

Good luck!

Kim
ziggy at winks.com

-----Original Message-----
From: javascript-admin at LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-admin at LaTech.edu]
On Behalf Of Joshua Turcotte
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:24 AM
To: javascript at LaTech.edu
Subject: [Javascript] ---OBJECT REQUIRED?---

I am absolutely infuriated with this... I did some work for a local
hospital that was trying to implement a dhtml menu system into their
templates... browser issues and all that.  Very fun... About two weeks
ago, I finished the work, it was beautiful... javascript heavy.

I deliver the goods... but their coder is out for 2 weeks.  Hence, 2
weeks later I hear back 'the menu in the templates doesn't seem to
render.'  So I check it out... the, and I stress this, untouched code on
my end... the very same code that I had worked with 2 weeks before and
had reached a conclusion with... now was giving new errors... in this
case, two separate 'Object Required' errors on lines 8 and 45 (and
according to the error itself referencing the template.html file, these
correspond to a "<script type='text/javascript'
src='menu_com.js'></script>" (line 8) and a "<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0"
marginheight="0" onResize="tryagain()";
onLoad="MM_preloadImages('Images8/homeover2.jpg','Images8/newsover2.jpg'
,'Images8/departmentsover.jpg','Images8/servicesover.jpg','Images8/conta
ctover.jpg');rndSlideShow(5000,0)" link="#0000FF" vlink="#0033FF"
alink="#0033FF"> " (line 45) ... 

except for the reference to onResize="tryagain()";, both errors are
referencing lines that have remained unaltered since the good were
originally delivered to ME... I don't like the MM scripts, but I didn't
have the budget to write others, and I don't even care to guess what
rndSlideShow does... what I can say is that these never complained
before.

AND... if I take out ALL references to javascript from line 45... so
that its just a body tag and nothing else... it STILL says 'Object
Required' line 45... 

Can I swear here?  I'm livid... I don't like coming back to a completed
project to find that it has decayed seemingly on its own.. and yes, this
is object REQUIRED... not expected.  I don't even think the particulars
of the code should matter simply because they worked flawlessly at the
time of completion and nothing in my development environment has changed
in the least in the 2 weeks since.

Does anyone have a scrap of war-story style experience with something
like this who might be able to shed some kind of light on exactly what
universal constant of existance changed that sent this code into nuclear
decay.

*screams*

_____________________________________________________________
J.e. Turcotte: eMAGERY Founder, Media|Creative Solutions Developer
jet at emagery.com, voicemail: (207) 866-4842, www.emagery.com

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