Lingo "alert" causes script error

I've just started using MX 2004, and I find that whenever the
"alert" lingo is encountered, I get a script error which won't
continue.
I am working on Mac OSX 10.4.10 and compile my projectors to
.exe and transfer them to my PC.
Everything else works, just not the "alert" lingo command.
Any ideas?
Thanks
William Donelson

The alert handler requires a string so if you pass anything
else you will get an error. If it was failing on
alert ( "This is a message" )
I don't know why, but if you were passing a message to a
handler that wasn't a string then preceding it with EMPTY changes
it to a string.
ie.
alert( EMPTY && v_message )
or
alert( v_message.string )

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