scripting the creation of text fields

[Alistair]

I have been trying to script the creation of a text field but without success. When I use the following I receive an error message "No such object" with "rlabel" being identified as the offending object:

create field "rlabel"
set the location of field "rlabel" to x1+200,y1-27

[Janschenkel]

After the engine executes the 'create' command, the 'it' variable contains the long id of the freshly created object.
You may want to wrap it in a 'lock messages'/'unlock messages' pair to prevent the Revolution IDE from tampering with your new object. This will also prevent the phenomenon where you leave 'browse' mode after such a create statement.
Also check 'the result' and 'it' right after the call to 'create' - that might provide additional clues.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

[Mark]

Hi Alistair,

I just tried the following script:

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on mouseUp
   put 1 into x1
   put 2 into y1
   create fld "rlabel"
   set the location of field "rlabel" to x1+200,y1-27
end mouseUp

and it works fine. Perhaps you could post your complete handler and let us check whether there are any errors in it.

Best,

Mark

[Alistair]

Thanks for the suggestions on this issue. The problem turned out to be a syntax error that I feel embarrassed not to have picked up.