RE: my card is hiding from me and from preOpenCard!

2012-07-13 Thread Ralph DiMola
vices rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 1:30 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: my card is hiding from me and from preOpenCard! On 7/13/1

Re: my card is hiding from me and from preOpenCard!

2012-07-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/13/12 10:05 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:24 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: It's likely a script error somewhere earlier in the launch sequence (preOpenStack, openStack, etc.) The script aborts and all messaging stops. As I'm single-stepping watching for errors (there have

Re: my card is hiding from me and from preOpenCard!

2012-07-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Do you make any references to files or paths to files? If so, then translate them to absolute paths, and not relative paths. Just guessing. Bob On Jul 13, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > I'm baffled now. > > I've stepped all the way through, found one error (an unquoted > fieldname w

Re: my card is hiding from me and from preOpenCard!

2012-07-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm baffled now. I've stepped all the way through, found one error (an unquoted fieldname with a corresponding variable), fixed that, and still no luck. It simply works correctly in the IDE, but preOpenCard/openCard don't get called the first time the card is displayed in the standalone (and, it

Re: my card is hiding from me and from preOpenCard!

2012-07-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:24 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > It's likely a script error somewhere earlier in the launch sequence > (preOpenStack, openStack, etc.) The script aborts and all messaging stops. As I'm single-stepping watching for errors (there have been none so far), I noticed that pre/Op

Re: my card is hiding from me and from preOpenCard!

2012-07-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/12/12 7:24 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: The script is : answer "here" go card "dinfo" of stack "debtor_info" answer "there" In the standalone, nothing displays. I open manually (from a menu), and it displays the card, but doesn't run the scripts in pre/open. I go to the next card,

my card is hiding from me and from preOpenCard!

2012-07-12 Thread Dr. Hawkins
this just started happening (well, I hadn't made a standalone in almost two weeks) In the IDE, I open a client database, open or go to a card of the first stack of interest by script, and it runs preOpenCard and openCardquite happily. When I create a standalone, I open the new file, and the outli