Face it Richmond. It's you and me against the world. ;-) Bob
On Sep 20, 2012, at 2:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 9/20/12 2:31 PM, Richmond wrote: >> >> Would things not be easier to understand if each subsequent lockscreen >> was signalled in some >> sort of way so one can keep track of all the nested lockscreens > > I think that would increase complexity and decrease functionality. As Thierry > pointed out, scripts would break if you use anyone else's libraries. And > there's not much advantage to tracking all that when the engine does it for > you anyway. > >> At present (as I'm sure 99% of the readers of this Use-List already >> know) each lockscreen >> is initiated like this: >> >> set the lockscreen to true >> >> and, as we have all recently become, almost painfully, aware, you can do >> that as many times >> as you like, but then have to do >> >> set the lockscreen to false >> >> just as many times to reverse the process > > Not really. You don't have to track it at all. There are several ways to > handle it: > > 1. Just ignore it. When the handlers are done the screen will unlock > automatically. > > 2. If you always pair locks and unlocks in each handler, the situation will > never arise. > > 3. If you do feel that you simply must make sure the screen is unlocked, the > method is three lines of code: > > repeat until the lockscreen is false > unlock screen > end repeat > > But I can't remember ever needing to do that. Have you ever run up against a > problem with it? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
