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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard Error 777
Message-ID: <24870@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Jan 89 16:40:02 GMT
References: <3538@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <3538@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> vmrad@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Bernard Littau) writes:
>I am receiving an Error Alert from Hypercard during compacting of
>a stack.  The Alert says Error 777, Sorry.  The stack seems to work
>correctly and is compacted after the Alert is retired.  I cannot find
>an Error 777 anywhere.  Can someone enlighten me as to what is going on?

Error 777 is an internal debug number that indicates the some of
HyperCard's internal objects are open during idle, which should never be
the case.  In other words, you have some situation on your machine which
should never be arrived at, or in other words, there's a bug.

Which version of HyperCard are you using?  How big is the stack? How
many cards, backgrounds, fields?  Can you compact the stack, quit
HyperCard, re-enter HyperCard, compact the stack again, and repeatably
still see this error?

Dan Allen
Apple Computer