An error occured communicating with Zotero

Jon Rubin

Hi there,
I know this has been raised a couple of times before
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1342/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1155/
I've tried reinstalling the extension but the error keeps occurring. Do any of the devs know what might be the cause - some dodgy reference in my doc, for instance and whether or not its been fixed.
Thanks, Jon.

Jon Rubin

OK, additional weirdness:
I tried opening a new blank document to see if I could add a new citation and got this error:
BASIC runtime error.
An exception occred
Type.com.sun.star.lang.IllegalARgumentException
Message: .

Function fnRangeComp(m1, m2) as boolean
'Needed for the sort routine in OOo to get marks in correct order.
Dim oR1, oR2, nLT1 as Integer, nLT2 as Integer

oR1 = fnMarkRange(m1)
oR2 = fnMarkRange(m2)
nLT1 = fnLocationType(oR1)
nLT2 = fnLocationType(oR2)
if nLT1 > nLT2 then
fnRangeComp = true
elseif nLT1 < nLT2 then
fnRangeComp = false
elseif nLT1 = ZOTERO_MAIN then
** fnRangeComp = thisComponent.Text.compareRegionStarts(oR1, oR2) > 0 **
else
nLT1 = oR1.Text.ReferenceId
nLT2 = oR2.Text.ReferenceId
fnRangeComp = nLT1 < nLT2
end If
End Function

I put stars next to the line where it crashed. Now suddenly I can refresh my original doc and add new entries.
Hope that helps chasing down this problem.

Jon Rubin

I think it must be a problem with the document, as when I have another newly created document open at the same time, I can insert citations, create a bibliography and refresh the new one, but the old one keeps giving me the communication problem.

tonyc2001

OpenOffice is simply locking up when I attempt to use one of the Zotero functions. I haven't been patient enough to determine whether it eventually throws an error (I'm in the middle of assignments) but this is a major problem which has only started happening recently.

Ununtu linux 7.04
OpenOffice Writer 2.2.0
Zotero 1.0.0.0 rc3
Ooo plugon 1.0a4