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Re: Return from Handler... What am I Missing Here?
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Re: Return from Handler... What am I Missing Here?


  • Subject: Re: Return from Handler... What am I Missing Here?
  • From: "S. J. Cunningham" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:48:23 -0400

On Oct 17, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Deivy Marck Petrescu wrote:

>
> On Oct 17, 2015, at 1:22 PM, S. J. Cunningham <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Another rookie error, I suppose.  Why does the first case work and the second fail?
>>
>> -- Case 1
>> handlerName()
>> if errNum of the result ≠ 0 then
>> 	display dialog "Error " & errNum of the result & ": " & errMsg of the result
>> else
>> 	display dialog "No Error"
>> end if
>> --> "Error -1: x"
>>
>> -- Case 2
>> if errNum of handlerName() ≠ 0 then
>> 	display dialog "Error " & errNum of the result & ": " & errMsg of the result
>> 	return
>> end if
>> display dialog "No Error"
>> --> Runtime Error: "Can’t make errNum of "x" into type Unicode text."
>>
>> on handlerName()
>> 	set yyy to "x"
>> 	return {errNum:-1, errMsg:yyy}
>> end handlerName
>
>
> The second case does not fail, it works correctly.
> if you log the result of your call, it returns "x", which does not have the errNum property.
>
> Deivy


Well, OK.  But why does it return "x" instead of {errNum:-1, errMsg:"x"}


Steve
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OS X 10.6.8, AppleScript 2.1.2


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