Perhaps this isn't the most appropriate avenue for seeking help about crashes, but this problem is driving me nuts... and costing me time. I have been working on a Lingo heavy Director project for the last month. Then one day, I pressed Play and Director crashed and burned with absolutley no error message. Just paused for a bit, then dissapeared.

The wierd thing: I hadn't actually made any changes. I had pressed play a few seconds before, and the Movie played fine. So I went back to my old saves - I had a few versions no more than an hour old. Now those wouldn't work (they played fine before). Why would the problem 'infect' my old versions?

Through a trial and error process of commenting my entire script, I have managed to find the line that is causing my problem:
add the actorList, new(script "historyLineObject", inText, 545, 531, 350, totalLines)

This line has sat in my code for a fortnight without a problem. Commenting it is the only means I have getting my project started (but then there is no functionality). Perhaps it has something to do with the variables being passed to the object? I have checked those - and everything seems fine. Has anyone else had a similar problem with the actorList?

This seemingly arbitray nature of the crash - coming out of thin air - has made me also suspect a problem with my Director install, or my system. I certainly hadn't changed anything in those few seconds from working to crashing. Regardless, I have reinstalled Director - but that didn't fix anything. At the moment I don't have access to another computer to test on.