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From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Problem with procedures in BASIC
Message-ID: <10808@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Jun 91 21:54:59 GMT
References: <7970@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Organization: Edinburgh University
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In article <7970@ecs.soton.ac.uk> snb90@uk.ac.soton.ecs (Stewart Brodie) writes:
:I have a small problem with a program I have written. It calls a
:procedure to load the window templates into memory and then create the
:windows so that the window handles are all set up correctly. However,
:when run, the program returns 'Not in a procedure at line 1740' where
:line 1740 is the ENDPROC statement.  At first I thought that it was
:probably caused by BASICs stack begin corrupted due to lack of memory,
:so I increased the WimpSlot to 640K (The program only needs about 96K).
:The problem persisted, so I ensured that the block into which the
:templates were being loaded was large enough to hold the window with the
:most icons.  I made the block over the size of the template file, but
:still the error comes.
:  The code goes roughly along these lines ... (I can't remember the
:exact order of the SYS parameters, but they are right in my program.)
:
:DEF PROC_load_templates

Look at the procedure/code *BEFORE* the line above - you may well
have dropped down into it.  Especially if what is before is the end
of your main program...

G