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Obtaining Full Version Numbers:- XMetaL Author Enterprise: Select the menu item "About XMetaL Author Enterprise" in the Help menu.
- XMetaL Author Essential: Select the menu item "About XMetaL Author Essential" in the Help menu.
- XMAX:
- In Windows Explorer right click on the xmcontrol.dll and select Properties, or...
- Call the API: myXMControl.ShowAbout(), or...
- Select the GUI item in your XMAX container application that calls ShowAbout().
- XMetaL Developer: Inside Visual Studio select "About Microsoft Visual Studio" in the Help menu, then scroll down and select "XMetaL Developer" in the "Installed Products" list.
Obtaining Text from Error Dialogs:In many cases it is possible to copy the text from error dialogs by pressing the key combination
Ctrl+Shift+Insert (or
Ctrl+Shift+Ins).
Example:Product: XMetaL Author Enterprise 5.5.0.219
OS: Windows XP SP3, German
Description:When I click on the button called "FOO-BAR" on my custom "BAZ" toolbar a dialog appears containing the following error:
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XMetaL Author Enterprise Edition
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Error on line 20. "Foo-bar ist null oder kein Objekt."
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OK
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Translation: Error on line 20. "FOO-BAR is null or not an object."
This only occurs when my document customization is loaded, it does not occur for other customizations.
Reproduction Steps:1. Unzip attached files to an empty folder. The DTD, CSS, CTM, TBR and MCR files are included as well as a sample XML document.
2. Launch XMetaL Author Enterprise and open the XML document using the Open option on the File menu.
3. In the third <p> element select the word "test" by double clicking on it.
4. On the "BAZ" toolbar click the "FOO-BAR" button.
The word "test" should be "foo-barred" but nothing happens and the error appears instead.
