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

Fri May 31 11:35:02 CDT 2002

well, I posted the example template at www.emagery.com/clients/emmc ...
I doubt you'd be able to see the .js scripts involved, but you can take a stab at seeing them... inside the same directory, checks.js, exmplmenu_var.js, menu_com.js ... and then what little tidbits are in the index.html file itself.

javascript at LaTech.edu writes:
>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
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