Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!nsc!voder!apple!dan From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Error messages Keywords: 54321 Message-ID: <12601@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 21 Jun 88 18:01:15 GMT References: <15799@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: dan@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen) Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 24 In article <15799@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> marvel@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Howard P. Marvel) writes: > >Could someone explain the following to me? I am working on a short >and simple stack. I want to delete a card. After selecting delete >card from the edit menu, I get a dialog box that says unexpected error >54321 and a SORRY button. Pressing the button exits hypercard. I >have two questions and a comment. > >1. What is wrong and how do I fix it? >2. Where are such bizarre and uninformative error messages >documented? Your particular problem is that a deleted card is still listed in HyperCard's internal card list. How do I know this you ask? Well, I just searched the HyperCard sources. Unfortunately, such BOMBs are not documented. They are supposed to never occur. It sounds like your stack got trashed. Which version of HyperCard are you using? Is it a big stack? Lots of cards? There were several major problems with large stacks in the initial release 1.01 of HyperCard that have been fixed in 1.1 and in 1.2. You should be using HC 1.2. Dan Allen HyperCard Engineer