Container control left problem

[chris_benton]

While making my own web menus, I am using the container control as a drop down that becomes visible once the mouse hovers over a label. On compiling, a bug is produced indicating “this item does not exist” with the word ‘left’ highlighted. the offending code is; [quote]mnuhome.Left=lab(index).left[/quote]. mnuhome is the container control and lab(index) is a label I am trying to align the container control to. Any Ideas??

[Michel_Bujardet]

@105413:@Chris Benton

While making my own web menus, I am using the container control as a drop down that becomes visible once the mouse hovers over a label. On compiling, a bug is produced indicating “this item does not exist” with the word ‘left’ highlighted. the offending code is; . mnuhome is the container control and lab(index) is a label I am trying to align the container control to. Any Ideas??

Are you sure mnuhome exists ?

[chris_benton]

[quote=105438:@Michel Bujardet]Are you sure mnuhome exists ?

[/quote]
Absolutely Michael. Thats the first place I looked…very confusing.

[Greg_O_Lone]

Extract your menu code from your project and file a private case in Feedback, so I can take a look at it.

[Michel_Bujardet]

@105439:@Chris Benton

Absolutely Michael. Thats the first place I looked…very confusing.

So mnuhome.top and mnuhome.visible have values ?

Maybe the error is coming from lab() then. Sometimes the outline does not reflect the actual source of the error. I would try something like

system.debuglog str(lab(index).left) system.debuglog str(mnuhome.left)

Right before your code. That way it will show which control left is the source of the error.

[chris_benton]

@105461:@Greg O'Lone

Extract your menu code from your project and file a private case in Feedback, so I can take a look at it.

Thanks Greg, but I cant use the feedback system on my Mac as it keeps saying that “the resource is busy”

@105477:@Michel Bujardet

So mnuhome.top and mnuhome.visible have values ?

Im not sure as the error occurs at compile time before the container can be embedded in the host window. I will try your suggestion above.

[Jason_King]

@105661:@Chris Benton

Thanks Greg, but I cant use the feedback system on my Mac as it keeps saying that “the resource is busy”

Is this when you are trying to install feedback? If so there was a bug with the feedback update a while ago and you need to open up Disk Utility, eject the feedback installer image, then open it again and install.

[chris_benton]

@105664:@Jason King

Is this when you are trying to install feedback? If so there was a bug with the feedback update a while ago and you need to open up Disk Utility, eject the feedback installer image, then open it again and install.

Correct Jason, will try your suggestion

[Greg_O_Lone]

@105665:@Chris Benton

Correct Jason, will try your suggestion

If that doesn’t work, go to the Extras section of the Downloads page on our site and download Feedback directly from there.

[Michel_Bujardet]

@105413:@Chris Benton

While making my own web menus, I am using the container control as a drop down that becomes visible once the mouse hovers over a label. On compiling, a bug is produced indicating “this item does not exist” with the word ‘left’ highlighted. the offending code is; . mnuhome is the container control and lab(index) is a label I am trying to align the container control to. Any Ideas??

I just put together a short test project :

• Added a Container control to the project
• Dragged an instance onto the web page
• Created a Label1 control array
• Dragged Label1(0) over the container control instance
• In the ContainerControl Open event placed the same code as you :

me.Left=lab(0).left

Absolutely no error.

Please try that in a new project and you shall see the same result.

Now, where is the code that generates the error ? I bet it is not on the same WebPage as the instance of the ContainerControl.

The only way I can reproduce the error is by placing mnuhome.left = label1(0).left in the Open event of the parent ContainerControl instead of in an event in the scope of the WebPage. Could it be what happened ?