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

Fri May 31 11:29:49 CDT 2002

Joshua,
You wouldn't happen to have a publicly-accessible URL that I could test with
my IE 6, would you? I might be able to do some diagnosing that way (no pun
intended).
Tommy Simmons
Employment Law Advisory Network
www.employmentlawadvisors.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Turcotte" <kaji at umit.maine.edu>
To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: RE: [Javascript] ---OBJECT REQUIRED?---

> 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*
> >
> >
> >_____________________________________________________________
> >J.e. Turcotte: eMAGERY Founder, Media|Creative Solutions Developer
> >jet at emagery.com, voicemail: (207) 866-4842, www.emagery.com
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Javascript mailing list
> >Javascript at LaTech.edu
> >https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Javascript mailing list
> >Javascript at LaTech.edu
> >https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript
>
>
>
> _____________________________________________________________
> J.e. Turcotte: eMAGERY Founder, Media|Creative Solutions Developer
> jet at emagery.com, voicemail: (207) 866-4842, www.emagery.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Javascript mailing list
> Javascript at LaTech.edu
> https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript
>