supressing errors

Hi
I am not much of a JavaScript programmer. I want to know how can I supress any errors that come in my script, like if there are some errors in my script like syntax errors or runtime errors, the browser(MSIE or NN) display a dialog stating that there are errors in script.
I don't want them to display that.
I know that there's an event

Code:

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window.onerror = some function

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this event is raised if there's any error in the script, but what should I put in place of some function so that the error dialogs in the browser doesn't appear.

Here's the MS dhtml ref:

Quote:

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To suppress the default Microsoft® Internet Explorer error message for the window event, set the returnValue property of the event object to true or simply return true in Microsoft JScript®.

The onerror event fires for run-time errors, but not for compilation errors. In addition, error dialog boxes raised by script debuggers are not suppressed by returning true. To turn off script debuggers, disable script debugging in Internet Explorer by choosing Internet Options from the Tools menu. Click the Advanced tab and select the appropriate check box(es).

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I believe the cross-browser way would be

window.onerror = function() { return true; };

Quote:

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To suppress the default Microsoft® Internet Explorer error message for the window event, set the returnValue property of the event object to true or simply return true in Microsoft JScript®.

The onerror event fires for run-time errors, but not for compilation errors. In addition, error dialog boxes raised by script debuggers are not suppressed by returning true. To turn off script debuggers, disable script debugging in Internet Explorer by choosing Internet Options from the Tools menu. Click the Advanced tab and select the appropriate check box(es).

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The script debugger can be turned off for the local browser but how to turn it off in the visitor's browser who is visiting the website?? I read somewhere that its possible to tweak some settings of IE as well as NN through JavaScript. So how do I go about that.

As for returning true for the window.onerror event, I've tried both true & false as well as continue but the dialog still pops open saying that there are some errors in script & would I still like to run it.

So what do I do now??

Wait...it gives an error and asks if you'd like to run it? That sounds like you've got a non-terminal loop or something.

Why don't you try to fix your errors first, before masking them?

the only time i've needed to supress an error was when I had code coming from a remote server for ads that I had no control over.

I guess it could be useful if being viewed in older browsers though.

I went over again & again through the code & I can't figure out where the error is. It was running fine earlier & I hadn't made any changes to the code. The code is here:-

Code:

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function openWin(w, h, t, l)
{
var abc = window.open("", "abc", "width="+w+",height="+h+",left="+l+",top="+t+",toolbar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1");
}

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& I am putting the following in a button to open the window:--

Code:

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onClick="openWin(350, 200, 100, 100);"

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Now this thing was working fine earlier but 2-3 days ago, it started giving errors.
So what could be the problem.
I have to look for some way stop errors from being raised.