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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!waikato.ac.nz!ramorgan
- From: ramorgan@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: "Too many pending messages" Error?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.125936.10069@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 12:59:36 +1200
- References: <1992Aug11.110751.14578@uva386.schools.virginia.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Aug11.110751.14578@uva386.schools.virginia.edu>, wayne@uva386.schools.virginia.edu (Tony Wayne) writes:
- > I writing a hypercard stack that runs like a slide show. The
- > user is not to pess any buttons. In fact, when done the
- > computer will be on the other side of a window. Here the rub.
- > While running the program I get an error -debug, script,
- > cancel- box that says "Too many pending messages." What does
- > this mean and most importantly how can I get rid of it?
- >
- > I backed up to the previous card and the stack began running
- > again. But this time it didn't show me the error box. The
- > error box only shows up when I begin from the beginning ofthe
- > stack. Appearantly after running through so many card scripts.
- >
- > The stack is written by using "On OpenCard" scripts on each
- > card.
- >
- > Suggestions?
- > -Tony Wayne
-
- To quote almost ... Hypercard has no room to cache a new object to send a
- message to it ... Yes it happened to me in similar circumstances. When you back
- up one it's like clearing the slate, but if you continue on in the same manner,
- it will happen again.
-
- How did I get around it ? I compromised with the length of travel (ie how many
- cards I went to), and when I came to the front of my program again, I got the
- user to click anywhere. This was an extremely SLACK way to solve the problem
- and I'm sure someone will have a better idea, but because it was a demo which
- was mostly under my control, to be used once ever only, it wasn't such a bad
- thing, and I didn't try too hard to find a solution. Sorry, but if you can't
- get a better reply, I hope this helps.
-