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

Fri May 31 10:46:12 CDT 2002

Ah... everyone needs to feel stupid early in the morning... get it right out of the way.  Unfortunately, replacing the ; didn't seem to make any difference at all... the errors are undeterred.  *cries*

What gets my goat is that I don't have any clues to work from on this.  It worked fine when I put the case to bed, and now its not working fine, and without my having lain a hand on it... if I had and it had stopped working, I at least would have a
clue where to look.  This is just completely out of the blue.

Now...

there are three scripts being called ... its it possible it is misreferencing the location in the error-box... lines 8 and 45 of one of the scripts and not template.html like it says?  I've checked and in one case, line 8 is a blank and line 45 is
"if(DomNav&&!Opr)Trigger.addEventListener('load',Go,false);", in another line 8 is a // quote and line 45 is beyond the EOF, and in the third, both like 8 and 45 are var statements.  None of the above of which in any way stray from the originals
sent to me or the originals from my own library of functions that continue to work without complaint for other projects.

How does something simply cease to function by itself?

javascript at LaTech.edu writes:
>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*
>
>
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