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5aLIVE
September 7th, 2006, 06:09
Hmm,
I recently downloaded an interesting eBook in CHM format, it has the annoying symptom of displaying an Internet Explorer Sript Error messsage box along the lines of :

An error has occurred in the script on this page
Line: 9
Char: 0
Error: Object expected
Code: 0
URL:mk:@MSITStore:C:\eBook\\My%Interesting%20eBook

The only pages which don't bring up this error is the cover page and ToC.
I've disabled the IE script debugging and check the I have the current version of hhctrl.ocx.

I also decompiled the .chm file and had a quick peer at the HTML source.
Here are the first few common lines :
Code:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<!-- saved from url=(0054)?bkid=61&chnkid=3 --><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Introduction -</TITLE>

<META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>

<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>

<!-- // Activate 33 cloak -->

</SCRIPT>



<META content="MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>

<BODY bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 link=#122eb2 onload=RefreshMenu(); 

<topMargin=5><A name=toppage></A>

<TABLE border=0 cellPadding=1 cellSpacing=1>

  <TBODY>

  <TR align=right>

    <TD height=44><A href="http://www.books.com/toc.asp?bkid=61" 

      target=Content BORDER="0"></A><A 

      href="http://www.books.com/bookmark.asp?bkid=61&amp;chnkid=3" 

      target=Content BORDER="0"></A><A 

      href="http://www.books.com/bookshelf.asp?bkid=61&amp;chnkid=3&amp;addbk=1"


I'm not really that well versed in HTML, the only problem I could see, I have highlighted in red, the '<' is missing from each htm file. I edited the first few pages and recompiled the file. Unfortunately the script error persists. Looking at this again, I don't think the missing '>' is an error afteral as it not a tag

Can anyone suggest how might I solve this? BTW, What tool could I use to do a batch search and replace for multiple files? Would a tool equivalent to grep for Windows do the job?

Thanks for reading.
Maximus
September 7th, 2006, 08:02
Where is the RefreshMenu() ? the '<' isnt needed there, anyway.
naides
September 7th, 2006, 09:37
Quote:
[Originally Posted by 5aLIVE]. . . BTW, What tool could I use to do a batch search and replace for multiple files? Would a tool equivalent to grep for Windows do the job?

Thanks for reading.


Several versions of GREP for Windows can do that for you.

Correct: There are several implementations GREP for windows, for free and available for download, just by searching "GREP for Windows"
5aLIVE
September 7th, 2006, 10:36
Thanks for the help Maximus and naides. By removing every reference RefreshMenu(): in the htm files and recompiling has fixed it.

I now have a eBook without the annoying script errors. Hurrah!