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

Fri May 31 16:20:26 CDT 2002

Joshua,
It was even easier to get your .js files than I thought it would be -
usually I have to grab them out of my Temporary Internet Files folder, but
since my IE 6 also found script errors, it was easy to just copy from the
script debugger window and paste them into appropriately-named .js files.
OK, that was easy, but now for the hard part... I confirmed your script
errors, but found them in Line 7 and Line 44 of  the "exmplmenu_var.js" and
"menu_com.js" files, respectively.

from "exmplmenu_var.js": line 7 - var total = document.height ||
document.body.scrollHeight || document.body.style.pixelHeight;
from "menu_com.js": line 44 - if(Trigger.onload)Dummy=Trigger.onload;

 From the latter .js file I also got an error message that a closing bracket
"}" was expected at line 540.

I have not yet found anything that explains the errors. I'll keep looking at
them and let you know if I find anything of substance.
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 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: RE: [Javascript] ---OBJECT REQUIRED?---

> 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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