Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Jacobson To: 810-023-01@uni.edu Subject: VBScript debugging Hi 023 students, When using VBScript and trying to debug your quiz questions page, you will be using Internet Explorer. There are two settings in one of the Internet Explorer menus you should check to make this process simpler: Pull down the Tools menu, do the Internet Options command, Click on the Advanced tab (in the Tools menu, Internet Options dialog box) Notice the following two checkboxes. Uncheck it ---> Disable Script debugging Check it ---> Display a notification about every script error You do NOT want to disable script debugging, so uncheck this box if its checked. You do need and want to see notifications about every Java or VBScript error, so check the box so you get notified about the script error, what file it was in and WHAT LINE NUMBER the error was on. In pico editor, use the ^C (control+C) keystroke to tell you what your cursor position is (what line number you are on in the file). ^C Cursor Position (the line number) is the very useful pico command to help track down the line number of the error that IE (Internet Explorer) told you about in your VBScript and frames quiz questions project. The error I have seen twice, is people trying to start a variable or object name with the digit ONE. On the handout, lst means list without the i and is a prefix for lists. It is an L in lst, not a ONE in lst. Unfortunately, lower-case l looks alot like the digit 1 in most fonts. Change your 1st's (Firsts) to lst (LISTS) by changing the digit ONE to a lower-case L. 1 <> l ------ Mark