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Hi Carlo,
Welcome to the forum.

This sounds like you have Strict Compilation Mode enabled which will force you to define x before you use it
local x
on mouseUp
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Simon

Hello Simon,
thank you so much! That was exactly where the problem lied. So, if I understood correctly, the strict ...

In that handler the variable "nolines" has not been assigned a value.
That is true, however it is irrelevant to my problem; I changed the name of the variable to x from nolines in order to verify that was nothing going on at the level of the name chose for the variable. I hope this clarifies ...

I am on a Mackbook air ( iOS 10.10.3.) running Livecode 7.0.5.
I set the property explicitVariables to false, which I also confirmed through the message box, however, when I try to put a field into a variable, I got the following message "button "strip letters": compilation error at line 2 (Chunk ...