Issues with hyperlinks

[Murraybrian]

Im working on a game, some areas have links in the description. The starting area links work until you click on a link in a different area. When I go to the HTML tools tab I see an uncaught TypeError.

playercore.js:698 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'split')
at buildMenuOptions (playercore.js:698:27)
at $.fn.jjmenu_popup (playercore.js:1941:21)
at HTMLAnchorElement. (playercore.js:101:21)
at HTMLDocument.dispatch (jquery-2.1.1.min.js:3:6404)
at r.handle (jquery-2.1.1.min.js:3:3179)

When I go to the area of concern I see:
function buildMenuOptions(verbs, text, elementId) {
var verbsList = verbs.split("/"); <-------Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'split')
var options = [];
var metadata = new Object();
metadata[text] = elementId;
var metadataString = JSON.stringify(metadata);

The issue points at the var verbsList line.

I havent been able to figure out what the issue is exactly. Im not seeing anything undefined either.

Any tips on how to further debug or error handling is greatly appreciated.

[KVonGit]

Hello,

Can you post your code that prints those links, or a link to the game? (Not sure what to advise you look at, but we could probably look at the code and see what's happening.)

[Murraybrian]

I spent a few hours looking through the game and found the issue. I had a feeling it wasn't due to the links or verbs themselves. The issue was with some corrupt Functions/Commands, everything works after removing them.

What's odd is that the commands were [climb down, lift up, and use tool], and the functions were related to timers. Im still not sure how they connect to hyperlinks/verbs in the buildmenu.

[KVonGit]

Hmm... It sounds like maybe you had command links? And it was trying to treat them like object links (or something)? Just a wild guess... If you run into it again, or if you want to try to make what you had work, we can probably help.

[Murraybrian]

That sounds about right. This game has been in work for years, it's well over 4,000 lines. I did change some old stuff so I probably changed some object attributes or command links without thinking about it. In the end nothing changed in the game as far as I can tell when I deleted the Functions and Commands, so they were no longer being used.

I really need to do a full clean lol, thanks for the knowledge and the quick responses! If I ever get stumped again I know where to go.